RE: [xwiki-users] line breaks

Ok, this is gonna be longwinded and boring to most of you out there I reccon (and sorry Duke if you know this already, just ignore it in that case): This is an HTML thing which affects all browsers - not just for xwiki, but any web application under normal circumstances, for text rendered by the browser. Why this happens is fairly simple (ok, dusty memory but here's a stab at it). Generally speaking, any spaces (and characters that result in "space" such as line breaks, tabs, etc); are regarded as "whitespace" in html. Whitespace is ignored when there is more than one single whitespace character - so you could add a bunch of tabs, spaces, linebreaks, etc between a word, and it will be regarded as one single space. Putting in specific codes tells the HTML engine what you're wanting to do. For example: Line1 Line2 will become Line1 Line2 -But- Line1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Line2 will become Line1 Line2 (&nbsp; is the code for non-breaking-space) As the text is rendered by the browser, there is not much you can do to change it I guess one could wrap text into a non-HTML rendering object perhaps, like a textarea - but note that anything you do to change this, affects rendering of the page; and could unexpectedly break flexibility elsewhere ________________________________ From: Duke Tantiprasut [mailto:duketantiprasut@gmail.com] Sent: 27 July 2006 15:58 To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Subject: [xwiki-users] line breaks Hi All, Does any find that the way line breaks are handled are a bit counter intuitive. For example, if I enter: line1 line2 you get: line1line2 so to get results that you would normally expect, you would have to do something like: line1<br/> line2<br/> which is pretty ugly. I thought I can live with it but it's starting to bug me too much. Suggestions? Duke