I am not sure if this issue was already solved in this list but I couldn't find any working solution yet.
The problem I am having is that h:inputText collapses a sequence of multiple spaces into a single space character. Background: web app using MyFaces 1.2.9 (I tested it with MyFaces 2.0.7 with same results) Steps to reproduce the issue: 1. User fills h:inputText form field with multiple spaces. For example, "ABC ABC" with 4 spaces in the middle. 2. I confirmed that the value is saved correctly in the database with all 4 spaces -> "ABC ABC". 3. However, when form screen is refreshed the h:inputText shows value with just a single space in the middle -> "ABC ABC" AFAI can see this is not something caused by HTML, CSS or the browser because when I view the page source from the client side I see "ABC ABC" (i.e. 1 space), so this must be something happening server-side (MyFaces? Facelets?). Question is, how can I prevent this behavior of multiple spaces being replaced with 1 space? I found that all calls to my bean's getter method during the save and screen refresh process returned the correct value with multiple spaces. But still the inputText value has only 1 single space. Odd I could not find this specific problem discussed in many places, and from those few threads I found none had a potential solution so I tested it on other JSF projects just to reduce the risk I am doing something wrong. I got the same results with brand new AppFuse 2.0.2 and 2.1 JSF projects (MyFaces 1.2.2 and 2.0.4 respectively). Saved a password hint like "A male kitty." (4 spaces between "male" and "kitty") but the edit profile screen also presents it as "A male kitty." (1 space between "male" and "kitty"). Some responses (e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4676166/do-not-collapse-whitespace-when-displaying-the-value-of-the-backing-bean-in-the-j) mentioned to use <pre> and CSS to avoid that but the code updates below did not made any changes to that behavior. <t:htmlTag value="pre"> <h:inputText value="#{userForm.user.passwordHint}" id="passwordHint" required="true" style="white-space: pre;"> <v:commonsValidator client="true" type="required" arg="#{text['user.passwordHint']}"/> </h:inputText> </t:htmlTag> I could use something like these PRE tags (if it worked) but I thought by default JSF shouldn't transparently remove content from the value of a bean like it is doing in this example. In this thread (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5576025/jsf-related-issue) Luigi mentioned that JSF should preserve spaces in h:inputText but this is not what is happening. Hopefully someone already faced this issue and can share how it can be fixed but any help (e.g. suggestions of things I could try) is appreciated, Pedro -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/h%3AinputText-collapses-multiple-space-characters-tp32158748p32158748.html Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
