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Add whitespace to beginning of data element

Tubal

Hi. 
 
I'm trying to indent a data element based on the length of the data, but BIRT is trimming the whitespace before it renders. If I add something to the beginning, it works fine. But if it's just whitespace, it doesn't work. Is it possible to do this? 
 
Here is my code: 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>var label = '';
for(i = 0; i < row["step_path"].length; i++) {
label += ' ';
}
label += row["step_path"];
label;</pre>
 
I saw this post trying to do the same thing: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/topic/15101-inserting-spaces-at-the-beginning-of-a-data-element/page__s__3adf3aaf1d338afda157353d1999eecb'>http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/topic/15101-inserting-spaces-at-the-beginning-of-a-data-element/page__s__3adf3aaf1d338afda157353d1999eecb</a> 
 
but the solution doesn't seem to be working. I'm using 3.7.2. 
 
Thanks.

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Comments

mwilliams

If you use an HTML text box instead of your data element and add   instead of a space, it should give you your space.

johnw

Use the following script instead: 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>
var label = '';
for(i = 0; i < row["step_path"].length; i++) {
label += ' ';
}
label += row["step_path"];
label;
</pre>