How to show new line text using any of the text display components in xCP Designer

Hi to all,

A screen of my application contains a text area which shows an output to the user. I am trying to write the output of a stateless flow which contains multiple lines to the screen (via text area).

In text area, the newline characters are trimming and I got an ugly output as you can see below.

I know that the newline characters can seen when using Rich Text component, however I cannot set its value from a flow or cannot set as the value of an attribute.

I am trying to show:

-----

Step 1

-----

x is OK.

y is OK.

*****

However current output is:

-----Step 1-----x is OK.y is OK.*****

Can you help me about this issue? How can I show the output as I want?

Thanks.

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Hari Prasad Dontu

You can use "Value Display" widget and set it to "HTML".. then you can use <br> tags.

Grrr

We have this problem migrating from 2.1 to 16.4 - newlines are being trimmed by the Text Area widget when they were displayed before hand. Is this really expected behaviour? Our users enter multi-paragraph blocks of text and they are not going to be adding <br> all over the place. This must be a bug.

Karen Weir

@DCTM_Guru, do you have expertise in this area, or know of any peers that can jump in here? I'll reach out internally as well

Grrr

Hi Karen, thanks for jumping in, I'm pleased to say I've found a fix. Tracked down to an issue with the CleanTheme which the our app's theme is based on - clue came from ID:KB7864583 which is about not being able to add new lines when editing. Solution is to remove the white-space: normal !important style attribute from the .x-form-field class in the CSS.