Display Issue 2

[TheConeHead]

Is there anyway to make the html display a hard break without a <br>. I am inputting data from a db and it looks like:

this is the
text that I am
inputting from
a db.

I want it to look as if it was this:

this is the<br>
text that I am<br>
inputting from<br>
a db.<br>

 

[frag]

I don't think that there is a way to do this. If you don't use a tag like <br> or <p></p> the text will appear in the browser as one single line.

Why don't you want to use <br>?


Cheers

frag

patrick.metz@epost.de

 

[ChrisHunt]

You could surround it with <pre> tags, but that will change the font to courier as well.

Otherwise, you'll have to scan your text as you extract it and replace all occurences of the line break character with a <br>. I can't be more specific without knowing more about your database and the code you're using to deal with it.

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[TheConeHead]

<pre> works beautiful... just put a style to it and that corrected the font issue... thanks man

 

[vbkris]

what r u using? ASP or PHP? there may be another method...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[TheConeHead]

I'm using asp but <pre> does the trick . . .

 

[frag]

Hm... I guess I did not got the problem... I thought you wanted a linebreak without having to use any tags at all...

patrick.metz@epost.de

 

[petey]

Star for Chris. I think <pre> definitely is the right tag for this task. <br> would add more tags than necessary and jumble the code. If the database text displayed is for example customer info, you could even use <pre class=&quot;customerinfo&quot;> and then in your stylesheet use pre.customerinfo{font-family:sans-serif;}

Cheers,
petey

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