you can use:
{{=P(row.basic.comments, cr2br=true)}}
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Álvaro Justen
[Turicas]<alvarojus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Eddie Eyles<ho...@heddonsgate.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I'm retrieving data that may contain carriage returns, and I want to
>> display this with these line breaks intact, i.e. I need to put either
>> a '<br/>' or an HTML block element closure/opening in place of each
>> carriage return. I have tried the following in the view:
>>
>> <td>{{=row.basic.comments.replace('\n','<br/>')}}</td>
>> -- this outputs '<br/>' instead of '<br/>', as you would expect
>>
>> <td>{{=row.basic.comments.replace('\n',XML('<br/>'))}}</td>
>> -- this generates an error 'expected a character buffer object'
>>
>> <td>{{=XML(row.basic.comments.replace('\n','<br/>'))}}</td>
>> -- this achieves what I want, but of course it also means the entire
>> field is unescaped, leaving it vulnerable to XSS attack
>>
>> <td>{{=XML(row.basic.comments.replace('\n','<br/>'),sanitize=True)}}</
>> td>
>> -- this produces gobbledegook
>>
>> <td>{{=XML(row.basic.comments.replace('\n','<br>'),sanitize=True)}}</
>> td>
>> -- this seems to be just right (but strangely the expected '<br>' tags
>> are converted to '<br/>')
>>
>> Am I doing the right thing with my last effort? I am very new to both
>> web2py and python.
>>
>> Eddie
>
> Maybe:
> {{='<br />'.join(row.basic.comments.split('\n'))}}
> ?
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