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I am trying to add an extra field to my pages which is a text area. In that text area I want to add links which will be clickable once viewed on the page.

I made an extra field in the page structure which I set to textarea with the following html code: [code]<textarea  type="text" class="editor" name="newpagetext" cols="90" rows="5" ></textarea>[/code]

Now, the problem is if you add multiple lines of text it will simply display all those lines of text without a break (or enter to go to the next line) and also it wont read bbcode it will display the plain text (and so the bbcode). So, I tried to write the text in html but that too does not work, it will again show plain text (and so the html code).

Anyone has any idea how I can make a text area actually work properly? Meaning, if I want text to be placed on the next line it actually does that instead of displaying all after eachoter without a break and also is there a way to make the text into clickable urls like you have in the normal text area?

ps, I tried to search but the search function here is pretty useless. it always comes up with 100 pages of results no matter if you specificy words or combinations.

So, I used google to search the site but that too did not give me any results.

Yes, I know that and made it equal. But that only works if you have a field with one line of text.

I created a text area which may have 15 lines, each line should be a clickable url. I can of course create 15 extra fields and hardcode them being urls but thats not really "economic". I hoped somehow you can do stuff with a text area.

Thanks Trustmaster for confirming that.

Yes, it will have to work on any page, not just one otherwise I could have made a specific page for it ;)

I hope to move my site to Sienna next year, there is a lot of things in it I like but first I am going to build my own new skin from scratch (already in progress) and prepare it for Sienna. Makes no sense for me atm to move knowing my plans.

So, 15 or something extrafields it is than I guess.

Just one question, a while ago you or another dev said those blocks ( <!-- IF {xxxxxxxxxx} --> <!-- ENDIF -->) when used a lot could slowdown pageloading. Would that be the case here as well when I add lets say 15 extra field to every page which will only show if content has been added in the field?

For now the website I am making it for is small and doesn't have many pages, but in case I want to use something equal on my site (around 12k+ pages) it would be nice to know if thats indeed the case or I can use it without noticable slower loading times.

Thank you for the additional information, it should be no issue than

Extrafields use default system-wide parser specified in Admin / Configuration / Main settings.