If you choose to keep the replaceall, then use:
<c:out value="${data}" escapeXml="false"/>
Or, for a jsp only solution:
<% pageContext.setAttribute("linefeed", "\n"); %>
<c:out value="${fn:replace(data,linefeed, '<br>')}" escapeXml="false"/>
Daniel.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Holmes Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 06 September 2004 17:08
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Line Breaks and Formatting Text
>
>
> I am a Struts newbie, but not in writing web-applications or JSP pages.
>
> I am writing a simple app that is taking data from my database and
> displaying the data in my JSP page, that works. I got the date
> formatted how I want, and that's fine. The text data that I want to
> display has some linefeeds in it within the database. Such as:
>
> Hi!
> This is a Test!
> This is another line!
>
> When this displays, it displays as one long line because I know HTML
> doesn't recognize line feeds. So, within my DTO class, when I get my
> data, I did a replaceAll("\n","<br>") to replace the linefeeds within my
> text. What happens now is that I see the <br> as part of the text, and
> the page source shows >br< (which is why I see the <br>).
>
> So, my question is ... how can I keep the line breaks by adding <br/>
> correctly? I want to keep the formatting the same with these line
> breaks. Is there some <fmt> or <c> tag that I am missing or some
> regular expression tag I could use. I am digging into my JSTL tag books
> for an answer.
>
> And BTW, I did search the Jarkarta Struts documentation, and I did look
> on the web for an answer first. Leaving a message here was my
> last resort.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tom
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