Displaying text that contains carriage return/line feed

[rjweytens]

I have text that I want to display that was entered into a database
via a textarea element. I am using Struts and MySQL. I don't want to
use another textarea to display the text because the other data on the
form is displayed as plain text (no objects) and I don't want to mix
styles. Plus, the disable option on the textarea element sucks
because it won't display the scroll down bars and the text color is
too light (which I may be able to change with a style, didn't try
that).

Any suggestions?

 

[Cid]

I have text that I want to display that was entered into a database
via a textarea element. I am using Struts and MySQL. I don't want to
use another textarea to display the text because the other data on the
form is displayed as plain text (no objects) and I don't want to mix
styles. Plus, the disable option on the textarea element sucks
because it won't display the scroll down bars and the text color is
too light (which I may be able to change with a style, didn't try
that).

Try setEditable(false) on your text area.

 

[Cid]

Try setEditable(false) on your text area.

Oh wait, you're talking HTML here - sorry.

I've been in this same scenario, I just did a replaceAll on the text
string ("\\n","<br>" on the fly when writing the page. That what
you're after?

 

[rjweytens]

Cid,

Yes, I am talking html. I will try out your suggesetion, thank you.

rjw