I am printing back text the user entered so there is no guarantee that they
will enter it in a particular format.

This can't be that hard ... replacing "\n" with HTML-recognizable <BR> tags. 
Surprisingly, Google is coming up empty on this one.  Any additional help is
appreciated, - Dave





struberg wrote:
> 
> why not use <ul> and <li> elements and later format your output via CSS?
> 
> LieGrue,
> strub
> 
> --- laredotornado <[email protected]> schrieb am Mo, 22.2.2010:
> 
>> Von: laredotornado <[email protected]>
>> Betreff: Re: How to elegantly replace line breaks with <BR> tag?
>> An: [email protected]
>> Datum: Montag, 22. Februar, 2010 19:34 Uhr
>> 
>> Will JSF escape the "<BR/>" and make it
>> "&lt;BR/&gt;"?  I still want other
>> "HTML" characters like "&" and "<" escaped.
>> 
>>  - Dave
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Jakob Korherr wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > You can provide a special getter method in your
>> managed bean for that
>> > (something like getResultWithLineBreaks()) and replace
>> "\n" with "<br />"
>> > in
>> > the return value of method. Then you have to change
>> your t:outputText
>> > component to:
>> > 
>> > <t:outputText
>> value="#{currentRow.resultWithLineBreaks}" escape="false"
>> />
>> > 
>> > Regards,
>> > Jakob
>> > 
>> > 2010/2/22 laredotornado <[email protected]>
>> > 
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm using MyFaces 1.1.5 with Tomahawk 1.1.7 (Java
>> 1.5, Resin, 3.0.19). 
>> >> Is
>> >> there a way in JSF where I can replace the "\n"
>> (chr(13) carriage return
>> >> character) with the "<BR/>" tag in my
>> outputText block?  Right now I have
>> >>
>> >> <t:outputText value="#{currentRow.result}"
>> />
>> >>
>> >> Thanks, - Dave
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