Great! Thanks for the help, I appreciate it very much!
Now, the question I have is ... which is the preferred method?
The JSP only solution looks like it does use a scriptlet to set the pagecontext. The first solution (which I use the replaceall), I am not sure if I want to do that because other code that might need to get my data from the DTO.
Which would you use?
Thanks again.
Tom
Daniel Perry wrote:
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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