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Felipe Queiroz
Felipe Queiroz

Reputation: 461

Showing multiple lines of text through EL

I am having problem displaying a text with multiple lines. For example, the user can type their text in a textarea in a registration form and the text can be of more than one line i.e. he can hit the Enter (return) key to insert line breaks.

On one page, if I want to show the text that he typed and I use a textarea to display (with EL), it displays the way user had entered initially.

But on another page I need this text be shown in paragraph format (using <p> tag). On this page, when I display the value that the user entered while registering, it does not have the line breaks i.e. it displays in a single line rather than with multiple lines as was entered by the user.

I already tried displaying the text through EL within a <p> tag and using a <c:out> tag of the JSTL within a <p> tag.

Some code that I tried:
Trial-1:

<p>${product.description}</p> //Doesn't show line breaks

Trial-2:

<p><c:out value="${product.description}" /></p> //Doesn't show line breaks too

How can I fix this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1460

Answers (2)

rickz
rickz

Reputation: 4474

Did you view the source sent to the browser ? Please try 

<p><pre>${product.description}</pre></p>

Upvotes: 5

Prakash K
Prakash K

Reputation: 11698

Right now I can think of something as to replace the \r\n sequence in the product.description string with <br /> with help of scriptlets or fn JSTL (function) tag

Idea Courtesy: SO Answer.

Upvotes: 1

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