What you usually do is to replace the renderer of the output-text component - and replace all occurrences of \n with <br/> there.
Plus: you need to make sure that escape="false". regards, Martin On 12/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I replace the \n with a <br/> on the output? By javascript? > Because when I write <h:outputText value="Hello<br/>World"/> It doesn't work. > > If I use the pre Tag, what can happen with the layout? > > Regards > Andy > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Luiz Carlos Geron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 14:13 > An: MyFaces Discussion > Betreff: Re: AW: How to display Line breaks in Outputtext? > > > > So the user has to write \n hardcoded into the textarea? Isn't there a way > > to recognize a Carriage Return, when the user presses the CR Key? > No. When you submit a form that contains a textarea, if you have typed: > > line > other line > > Then if you make: > > String str1 = this.getInputTextarea1 > ().getValue().toString().replace("\n","<br>"); > > You'll get "line<br>other line". Don't do this replace, since maybe you want > to put the value in a textarea again. > > > And I don't unterstand what you mean with the <pre> tag. > > Do you mean just: <pre><h:outputText value="Hello/nWorld"/></pre> and the > > Text is shown as Hello > > World > > > > ?? > Yes, you can also replace (on the output) the "\n" with <br>. I recommend this > last option, since it don't use the <pre> html tag, wich can break you > layout. > > -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces
