#24871: Textarea widget has redundant \r\n when writing XHTML
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Reporter: tompecina | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Forms | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: textarea, widget | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by carljm):
* stage: Unreviewed => Accepted
Comment:
I think a setting to control this is a non-starter, and we can drop it
from consideration. No other aspect of form widget rendering (or really,
form behavior in general) is configured via settings. Not to mention Tim's
objection, which is that a project wide setting fails to account for a
project which may need both behaviors (eg because it is mostly XHTML5 but
uses the admin).
Creating a custom widget subclass is not onerous. I do it all the time,
for all sorts of reasons. My inclination is that that's an adequate
solution for this case.
That said, I wouldn't have any problem with a `prepend_newline` parameter
to `Textarea` which defaults to `True`. The justification for this is not
so much XHTML5 specifically, and more just that the automatic new line
stripping is conceptually odd behavior to begin with, added by browsers to
workaround careless markup, and it seems reasonable to have a way to avoid
that workaround and revert to what would otherwise be the straightforward
intuitive behavior for the `Textarea` widget (that is, leaving the
provided contents alone).
I do think the added new line behavior is something that ought to be
documented regardless. Accepting this ticket on the basis that at least
docs should be added.
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