nl2br does job well. Thanks all.
On Feb 13, 11:29 pm, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:50 AM, [email protected] > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Where I can find the web helper documentation? > > > I want to use the simple_format to convert the newline to <br>. > > > is simple_format supported in webhelpers? (I see it was part of rails > > but could not locate which package simple_format resides) > > The rails helpers were replaced with a new set of helpers that do > pretty much the same thing, although there may be some differences in > the details. To just convert newlines to <br>, use > ``webhelpers.html.converters.nl2br``. There are other helpers in that > package that do that and more. ``format_paragraphs`` converts text > paragraphs to HTML. ``markdown`` and ``textilize`` convert two > wiki-like languages to HTML. > > The rails helpers were removed because they concatenated strings > rather than using an HTML tag builder, which led to mis-escaping. They > were also not very pythonic in their names and arguments. They can > still be found in WebHelpers 0.6.4, which is on PyPI. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
