Keep string field formatting in UI Page

[Brad Tilton]

I've got a UI Page that I am trying display some fields from one of my tables on. I have some multiline string fields that I am displaying on the UI Page, but when I display them, they lose all the formatting, specifically returns.

For example, if my string field on the form looks like this:

Here is some text
Here is more text

Then on the UI Page it looks like this:

Here is some text Here is more text

Is there any way to keep the formatting when displaying the data in the UI Page? It works just fine if I include those fields in email notifications.

[john_roberts]

UI Pages are rendered as html which doesn't understand whitespaces and line feeds. You can add the 'br' tag to add the line feed.

[Anurag Tripathi]

Hi Brad,

I had a similar encounter where i needed line breaks on a ui page. This is how i did it

<j2:forEach var="jvar_upd" items="$[jvar_updates]">

  <br/>$[jvar_upd]

  </j2:forEach>

<br/> provided me the line break

[Janel2]

<li> tags are an option too.   I used a UI page to list group memberships by doing the below.   You can probably just replace the lists with <br /> like John suggested.

<div name="blocky" id="block">

The user is already a member of the following groups:

<j:forEach var="jvar_groups" items="${group}"> 

   <p>${jvar_groups}</p> 

</j:forEach>



<ul>

<j:while test="${gr.next()}">

   <li>${gr.group.name}</li>

</j:while>

</ul>

</div>

[sammyb]

Hi Brad, did you ever get to the bottom of this?

I've used <Pre> tags around multi-line fields pulled back from a glide query in a UI page to preserve formatting but this is a double edge sword as you lose font etc and have to restate it within the Pre tag. Whilst it does maintain CR, line breaks white space etc. it also maintains rank stupidity i.e. the 3000 character stream of consciousness in a description field with no formatting at all is returned as a single line in your UI Page!

I've been playing around with wrap commands within the Pre tag but not much luck yet, if your sure of your data then <Pre></Pre> might be of some help to you, you would certainly get

Here is some text

Here is more text

returned albeit it in Courier!