Does anyone have tips on preserving line breaks in <c:out>?
For example, a user enters text into a textarea, which is stored in a database. When I retrieve the text from the database, I'd like to display it formatted exactly as the user entered it.
I can only think of two options:
1) Parse the text, insert <p> and <br> tags as needed, and set escapeXml=false on the <c:out> tag
2) Hardwrap the text and use a <pre> tag or CSS equivalent around it.
Anyone have other ideas?
This is close to 1), but use c:forTokens delims="\r\n". In the loop, print each element with whatever <br> you want between them.
It's a bit more content in JSP, but then you don't have to worry about leaving some of the content unescaped. I usually use <pre>.
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