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Line breaks vs new lines in text area boxes

Line breaks vs new lines in text area boxes by Dan Ross
- Re: [flask] Line breaks vs new lines in text area boxes by Ron DuPlain

Line breaks vs new lines in text area boxes

From:: Dan Ross
Date:: 2010-12-16 @ 00:57

 Hi there-

 I've used Flask for a daily lyric site (dailylyric.appspot.com).

 When the lyric is entered in a text area box, I've had to remove new 
 lines (if the poster pressed enter) and replace them with HTML so the 
 post displays correctly.

 When a poster edits an entry, I'm going to have to do the reverse.

 This isn't a big deal code wise, but it makes me wonder if I'm missing 
 a built-in way of doing it.

 Thanks,

 Dan

Re: [flask] Line breaks vs new lines in text area boxes

From:: Ron DuPlain
Date:: 2010-12-16 @ 01:01

Hi Dan,

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Dan Ross <dan@rosspixelworks.com> wrote:
>  I've used Flask for a daily lyric site (dailylyric.appspot.com).
>
>  When the lyric is entered in a text area box, I've had to remove new
>  lines (if the poster pressed enter) and replace them with HTML so the
>  post displays correctly.
>
>  When a poster edits an entry, I'm going to have to do the reverse.
>
>  This isn't a big deal code wise, but it makes me wonder if I'm missing
>  a built-in way of doing it.

You can write a template filter to do this, and tweak to your requirement:

http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/28/

This doesn't change the content, just how it's rendered.

-Ron