Surround your output (<bean:write...) with <pre> and </pre> which tells the browser to render it as preformatted text , and will respect spaces, newlines, tabs etc... This is also very useful if you need to show an exception stack trace in the browser. Note that within a <PRE> block, not all html elements can be used (shouldnt be an issue in this particular case though as you just want to display that fields contents).
-----Original Message----- From: Walter Fu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 07:16 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: <bean:write> data containing html tag? This might be a problem that people have already seen and solved: <html:textarea> is used for the user to enter data. 1. A single line of data may be so long that textarea wraps it around automatically. So it looks to the user as one paragraph. 2. There can be many new lines ( \n ) in the data when the user hits the Enter key. Once the data is captured as a String property, it can be shown to the user on a subsequent page correctly in a textarea. If on the subsequent page I wish to use not a textarea (not even with the readonly attribute) but something like <bean:write> to echo the data, how do I "preserve" the \n in 2? The browser would auto-wrap the text correctly. So that satisfies 1. The \n of course is treated by the browser as a single space. So the original paragraphs in 2 are "lost". One possibility is to replace \n with <br/> in the data. When I did that, the <br/> came out as <br/> This is not what I wanted. Any suggestions? Thanks, Walter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
