Figured it out. \n Question of inconsistency though, why does it recognize HTML constructs for pretty much everything else, but uses \n for carriage returns?
On Feb 9, 12:45 am, frizzo <rg...@vbrad.com> wrote: > I want to show some text in the AlertDialog. This text comes from > strings.xml where I've defined a string. However, I am having trouble > telling the AlertDialog to respect carriage returns, that I've encoded > into the XML string via <br /> statements? > > For instance > > <string name="about_crickets"><b>This is a question</b> <br/><br/> > This is the answer.</string> > > Is there another way to represent carriage returns? > > Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---