How to preserve line breaks from an Umbraco.TextAr...
# help-with-umbracoc
Craig100
02/29/2024, 5:24 PMV13.1.1
I've tried : @Model.Content.OverlayText?.ReplaceLineEndings() but it's still all in one line.
This is what the input looks like (below). I've tried soft line endings and hard, both the same.
I'd rather not change the control over to an RTE if I can get away with it.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks.
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SiempreSteve
02/29/2024, 5:55 PMCould you try wrapping the text in
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<pre>Event and ideas
& inspiration</pre>SiempreSteve
02/29/2024, 5:56 PM Copy code
<h1><pre>@Model.Content.OverlayText</pre></h1>a
Ambert
02/29/2024, 7:16 PMWouldnt it work with
Html.Raw()m
Mike Chambers
02/29/2024, 8:11 PMHtml.ReplaceLineBreaks((string)Model.value.ToString())Mike Chambers
02/29/2024, 8:12 PMhttps://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/contrib/src/Umbraco.Web.Common/Mvc/HtmlStringUtilities.cs#L20C1-L28C6
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csharp
public IHtmlContent ReplaceLineBreaks(string text)
{
var value = WebUtility.HtmlEncode(text)
.Replace("\r\n", "<br />")
.Replace("\r", "<br />")
.Replace("\n", "<br />");
return new HtmlString(value);
}m
Mark Drake
02/29/2024, 11:21 PMYeah, I was going to ask if he was replacing line breaks with HTML breaks. As far as I know the original code will not.
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Mike Chambers
03/01/2024, 8:39 AMThere is also https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/contrib/src/Umbraco.Web.BackOffice/Controllers/UsersController.cs#L670 in the core from .netcore..
new[] { userDisplay?.Name, from, WebUtility.HtmlEncode(message)!.ReplaceLineEndings("<br/>"), inviteUri.ToString(), senderEmail });219 Views