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Mark charlton
Mark charlton

Reputation: 377

Rails text formatting

I have a rails app that allows users to type in text. I wanted to know how do I make that text formatted?

For example when a user makes a new paragraph in the text input field, I want those gaps to show when I render the text to be displayed but, at the moment it is just a big chunk of text with no spaces.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3772

Answers (2)

Muhamamd Awais
Muhamamd Awais

Reputation: 2385

Use simple_format here doc. m sure it will work,

here how i use it in my project;

= simple_format my_text

where 

my_text = "foo bar
Testing helloworold foo bar
Testing helloworld foo bar
Testing helloworld foo bar
Testing helloworld foo bar
Testing helloworld foo bar
"

This will get displayed with enters you have given in the text and will render all the spaces also.

Upvotes: 7

pierallard
pierallard

Reputation: 3371

When a user use <Enter> character in a text input (or text area), it will be correctly displayed into it.

Rails doen't make particular traitment with this character. Then, when you render it, you create some HTML like <%= my_text %>. But <Enter> characters are not rendered in HTML.

You can use simple_format to do that: it replace all the \n (enter caracters) with some <br/>.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#method-i-simple_format

Upvotes: 7

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