Ok your right. you must specify 'style="white-space: pre;"', which specifies pre-formatted text handling as in an HTML <pre> area.
so http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_textarea paste in <textarea cols="80" style="white-space: pre;"> At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML to advanced XML, SQL, ASP, and PHP. Jacek Wagner sent the following on 12/17/2008 11:48 AM: > Sorry it did not do it. --Jacek > > <field name="bodyText"><textarea default-value="${name}, \n\r > Thank you for ordering Birthday Party Event. > This is to confirm that we received your order ${orderId} > for the workshop ${productName}. > The show start on ${eventDate} at ${eventTime}. > Please give yourself 15 minutes before the beginning of the > workshop. > Thank you for your order. > Sincerely, LHS"/></field> > > > BJ Freeman wrote: >> are you following the standard format for generating emails? >> if so you can define and html and use html code for a break. >> however if you looking for manual way to input in to a text area then >> use the unix convention of \n (linefeed) then \r is a carriage return >> and will give you a double linefeed. >> >> >> >> Jacek Wagner sent the following on 12/17/2008 11:06 AM: >> >>> All, >>> >>> I am sending email confirmation without attachment. I would like to >>> format bodytext using textarea.default-value. >>> Is it any way add line feed character into bodyText text? >>> >>> example instead of having >>> Mr Brown, thank you for your order ... >>> have >>> Mr Brown, >>> thank you for your order >>> ... >>> >>> Jacek >>> >>> >>> > > >