How to format a sentence in seam

Question

I am trying to format this HTML sentence <span>X<sup>2</sup> + Y<sup>2</sup> = ____</span> using <s:formatText/>. But the string "____" is not formatted correctly. How to get the sentence as Xpow(2) + Ypow(2) = _____ after formatting.

Note: I have surrounded the __ with an apostrophe so that it is show in the stackoverflow editor properly

Answer 1

the _ is a special character, used for underlining. You could try escaping it:

\_\_