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Reputation: 1093

Newline character doesn't render in browser

Why does the below code displays new line in console, but not in the browser/database? How can I resolve this?

StringBuilder s2 = new StringBuilder("John"); 
s2.append("Hey" + "\n")

Please assume that this code snippet is a part of the bigger code that is saving the conversation in a database.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3577

Answers (2)

Dumidu Udayanga
Dumidu Udayanga

Reputation: 914

It's because newline characters are normally interpreted by HTML as spaces. The usual way to have the text start on the next line in HTML is via a tag.

(If the text is enclosed in a element then newline characters are interpreted as new line instructions, but does other things which might be inconsistent with what you want the page to look like.)

Upvotes: 1

shakhawat
shakhawat

Reputation: 2727

You need to replace "\n" with "<br/>" before sending to browser.

Also, you can probably add css style="white-space: pre-line" to the html component if you don't want the server side conversion. I haven't tested this solution myself.

Upvotes: 3

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