Question

I have a web page that has a requirement to allow users to paste large amounts of text data from an Excel spreadsheet directly into the input controls of the page.
Typically the user would be pasting anywhere between 150 to 300 spreadsheet cells that are all in one column.

What are some good ways i could use to capture this data on the web page?

thanks

Answer 1

I have played with a few ways of doing this but the best way I have found is to start with a single multi-line text box and to have the user past the data into that box. It will come in with a multi-line tab separated format which you can then have javascript parse and place in the appropriate form fields and or generate form fields.