Thanks Serge. Your suggestion works great with one caveat:
I can't specify delims="\r\n" because those values are used literally.
However, this seems to work:
<% String newline = "\r\n"; pageContext.setAttribute("newline",
newline); %>
<c:forTokens items="${foo}" delims="${newline}" var="foo">
-----Original Message-----
From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:01 PM
To: Tag Libraries Users List
Subject: Re: Preserving Line Breaks in <c:out>
Brian Dame wrote:
> 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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