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PORetain newlines in HTML but wrap text: possible?
 

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    <p>I came across an interesting problem today. I have a text email I'm sending from a Web page. I'm displaying a preview and wanted to put the preview in a fixed font retaining the white space since that's the way the plain text email will appear.</p> <p>Basically I want something that'll act like Notepad: the newlines will signal a newline but the text will otherwise wrap to fit inside it's container.</p> <p>Unfortunately this is proving difficult unless I'm missing something really obvious. I've tried:</p> <ol> <li><p>CSS <code>white-space: pre</code>. This retains white space but doesn't wrap lines of text so they go out the borders on long lines;</p></li> <li><p>Styling a textarea element to be read only with no border so it basically apepars like a <code>div</code>. The problem here is that IE doesn't like 100% heights on textareas in strict mode. Bizarrely it's OK with them in quirks mode but that's not an option for me.</p></li> <li><p>CSS <code>white-space: prewrap</code>. This is CSS 2.1 so probably not widely supported (I'm happy if it's supported in IE7 and FF3 though; I don't care about IE6 for this as its an admin function and no one will be running IE6 that will use this page).</p></li> </ol> <p>Any other suggestions? Can this really be that hard?</p> <p>edit: can't comment so more info. Yes at the moment I am using font Courier New (i.e. fixed width) and using a regex on the server side to replace the newlines with <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> tags but now I need to edit the content and it just strikes me as awkward that you need to strip out and add the <code>&lt;br&gt;</code>s to make it work.</p> <p>is there no better way?</p>
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    1. COSee http://stackoverflow.com/questions/638648/getting-linebreaks-in-pre-tags
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