I faced the same situation, but not with
request.getParameter(). But the solution is replace
all occurrance of \n characters with <br> while
outputting to browser. You will get the text in the
exact passion the user entered. I solved it in the
same way.
Cheers,
Venu
--- Jj Fu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here you are:
>
> I'm betting that you're forgetting that HTML
> compresses all whitespace
> into a single space. Are you enclosing the result
> in <pre> tags?
>
>
> >>> "Brooke M. Fujita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/07/00
> 11:43AM >>>
> Would you mind posting Bob's reply to your question?
>
> Aloha,
> Brooke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages
> specification and reference
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jj Fu
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 7:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: request.getParameter("Name") with
> special chars
>
>
> Thanks to an email from Bob Schmertz, I have
> resolved the issue.
> Special chars actually are passed to the server from
> browser and fetched by
> request.getParameter(). When I write back to the
> browser, html omited them.
> After I used <pre> tag, I see them.
>
> JJ Fu
>
>
> >>> Jj Fu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/06/00 03:02PM
> >>>
> request.getParameter("Name") is the way to fetch the
> form input. When the
> input is a <textarea />, the user may type multple
> lines of input. It seems
> like request.getParameter() will NOT fetch the new
> line char. It also will
> NOT fetch special chars, like tab, space (in there
> is more than one), and
> new line chars. So, a multi-paragraph text will
> become a clustered string
> after go through request.getParameter(). Is there
> way to get around of this
> to preverve the original format from a <textarea> ?
> Thanks for any comments.
>
> JJ Fu
> SUN Certified Java Programmer.
>
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