Wow! I got HTTP error 500 when I posted my original message and now I found I have several duplicates in the list. Sorry about that.
pedro_burglin wrote: > > I am not sure if this was already answered but I couldn't find any working > solution for this issue yet. > > The problem I am having is that h:inputText collapses multiple space > characters into a single space character. > > Background: web app using MyFaces 1.2.9 (I tested it with MyFaces 2.0.7 > with same results) > > Steps to reproduce the issue: > 1. User fills h:inputText form field with multiple spaces. For example, > "ABC ABC" with 4 spaces in the middle. > 2. I confirmed that the value is saved correctly in the database with all > 4 spaces -> "ABC ABC". > 3. However, when form screen is refreshed the h:inputText shows value with > just a single space in the middle -> "ABC ABC" > > AFAI can see this is not something caused by HTML, CSS or the browser > because when I view the page source from the client side I see "ABC ABC" > (i.e. 1 space), so this must be something happening server-side (MyFaces? > Facelets?). > > Question is, how can I prevent this behavior of multiple spaces being > replaced with 1 space? > > I found that all calls to my bean's getter method during the save and > screen refresh process returned the correct value with multiple spaces. > But still the inputText value has only 1 single space. > > I got the same results with brand new AppFuse 2.0.2 and 2.1 JSF projects > (MyFaces 1.2.2 and 2.0.4 respectively). Saved a password hint like "A male > kitty." (4 spaces between "male" and "kitty") but the edit profile screen > also presents it as "A male kitty." (1 space between "male" and "kitty"). > > Odd I could not find this specific problem discussed in many places and > none had a potential solution. Some responses (e.g. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4676166/do-not-collapse-whitespace-when-displaying-the-value-of-the-backing-bean-in-the-j) > mentioned to use <pre> and CSS to avoid that but the code updates below > did not made any changes to that behavior. > > <t:htmlTag value="pre"> > <h:inputText value="#{userForm.user.passwordHint}" id="passwordHint" > required="true" style="white-space: pre;"> > <v:commonsValidator client="true" type="required" > arg="#{text['user.passwordHint']}"/> > </h:inputText> > </t:htmlTag> > > I could use something like these PRE tags (if it worked) but I thought by > default JSF shouldn't transparently remove content from the value of a > bean like it is doing in this example. In this thread > (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5576025/jsf-related-issue) Luigi > mentioned that JSF should preserve spaces in h:inputText but this is not > what is happening. > > Hopefully someone already faced this issue and can share how it can be > fixed but any help (e.g. suggestions of things I could try) is > appreciated, > Pedro > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/h%3AinputText-collapses-multiple-space-characters-tp32157698p32158771.html Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
