Can't you just embed your <bean:write> tag inside a <pre> element and get the same effect?
Craig On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Inge Solvoll wrote: > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:25:48 +0200 > From: Inge Solvoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: HTML formatting of newline characters with bean:write tag > > When outputting text with the bean:write tag, it can be text that was > entered by a user in a textarea. The text is submitted with \n (linefeed) > characters, and in most cases that I can think of, these linefeeds should > be preserved when outputted in HTML. Why isn't all newline characters > translated into BR tags when outputted through the bean:write tags? In PHP, > this functionality exists in the nl2br function, but I normally expect > Struts to perform things like this in a more transparent and elegant way. > > There is probably a reason for why this functionality doesn't exist, that I > don't see right now. Or, it exists but I didn't do a good job looking for it? > > Anyway, I solved the problem for myself by rewriting WriteTag in the > taglib.bean package to perform the needed translation from \n to BR-tags. > Clearly, this is not a very elegant way of solving the problem, so I would > be very happy to get some feedback on this issue. > > I hope this is the correct mailing list to submit this to, this is my first > contact with this list. My company uses Struts extensively in an advanced > way, and we often run into problems that there exists very little > information about online. I believe these problems would be interesting for > the Struts developers, so I will post a description later on. > > Keep up the good work! > > Inge :-) > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
