How to display newline in TimelineItem control's text property? - sapui5

We have a SAPUI5 timeline control, where we are showing the comments coming from server.
The issue is, if the comments contain a newline \n, then the Timeline control is not able to display the text in newline. Instead, it introduces space wherever \n is present.
We have tried formatting \n to unicode character also but that also didn't worked. Timeline control aggregates TimelineItem.
The control we are using is: https://ui5.sap.com/#/api/sap.suite.ui.commons.TimelineItem
Code snippet can be found at:
https://jsbin.com/kuluyehilu/edit?html,output

I inspected your example and came up with the following solution.
Since the text is embedded in a <span>, all unnecessary whitespace will be trimmed. What you can do is telling the span (via CSS) that it should display the whitespace anyway.
If you don't have a CSS file in your project yet, create one. Then add the following lines
div.sapSuiteUiCommonsTimelineItemShellBody>span {
white-space: pre;
}
This should do the trick.
JSBin: https://jsbin.com/feladeneso/1/edit?html,output

If you inspect the rendered element, you will see it actually put in the break:
<span id="__item0-realtext">x
y</span>
...but did not convert it to a <br/> tag. You cannot add the tag yourself since it will be escaped, either. Maybe you can try to override the renderer, and convert any line breaks to html breaks

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That Typo3 packs all paragraphs into p-tags is great. However, it does so with blank lines, so in the output code snippets like <p>&nbsp</p> disfigure the text.
Using
tt_content.stdWrap.dataWrap >
lib.parseFunc_RTE.nonTypoTagStdWrap.encapsLines>
in the typo Setup prevents these wrapping of paragraphs, even the empty ones.
But what can I do if empty lines are not to be wrapped, but those with content should already be wrapped?
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from sql, php generating msWord need to show a carriage return?

My PHP generates a Word document, but it will not render carriage returns. My CKEditor translates a carriage return into either,
<br>, or <div>asdf</div>
When the Word document is created, it will display those HTML tags, so I strip them out. What replacement code, character, ascii, or tag can I use so that when the page is rendered, it shows the text like it did in the Editor?
Current example - if you have the text "Don't jump off the" [then hit Enter, so that the next word is below it]...
"cliff." Instead, currently, that gets saved into SQL as:
Don't jump off the <br>cliff.
Don't jump off the <div>cliff</div>.
...depending on which browser is used. In the msWord output, any tags left in the content [exceptions to strip_tags function] get displayed literally in msWord. Or, if I replace the tags with ASCII 
 it displays that literally, too. Not sure if this helps, but this is defined at the top of my php report_generator.php file:
require_once '/var/www/PhpWord/src/PhpWord/Autoloader.php';
\PhpOffice\PhpWord\Autoloader::register();
include "/var/www/ncpcphp/NCPC_PHP_Functions.php";
DEFINE("WRITEtoFDOCS", "NO");
DEFINE("FDOCSDIRECTORY", "Contract Attachments");
DEFINE("MIMETYPE","application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document" );
Help - what can I use to cause the output to show the carriage return?
Thank you, Cindy. Your answer is a piece of the solution. My CKEditor saves carriage returns as either
<br>, <br />, or <div></div>
depending on which browser is used Chrome[div] or Firefox[br] - that goes into my msSQL. Yet, if my editor has turned-on an "Enter filter" [keycode-13] in order to prevent someone from enter-editing a [[Placeholder]] (ckeditor read-onlyplugin) then saved editor text strips out the Enter. So, I did this: kept in the enter filter because it is necessary, then after the text carriage returns are saved as br's or div's, when I run my report generator, I replace
<br>, <br />, and <div></div>
with "\n" like you said. Then I explode the text variable like this:
$show_cad = explode("\n", $show_cad);
foreach($show_cad as $line) {
$section->addText(htmlspecialchars($line));
}
The code in the editor needed to filter out the Enters only when Enter is pressed in the [[Placeholder]] plug in is more complex, and I got largely from CKEditor themselves. They request that I do not post their full solutions, but if you like I could show you pieces of it. Basically, I had to register the Placeholder widget. Then when Enter is pressed, it checks if the context is with Placeholder. If so, filter the Enter [then it disappears from the saved editor text], but if Enter is pressed elsewhere, it gets saved and used properly.
Thank you for your help!

Keep § when pasting from word

I'm trying to paste content from a word doc into a tinymce instance. The content contains the § (paragraph) character, but TinyMce changes it into an li tag.
Is there a way to config TinyMce to allow special characters like §?
What you are seeing is behavior around the Paste plugin when a sentence starts with that character.
When it starts with that character the Paste plugin treats that like a list element. If the character is anywhere other than the first character TinyMCE does not create a list element.
The best thing to do is to open a bug report on the issue tracker for TinyMCE so the developers are aware of this issue.
https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/issues

tinymce removes line breaks so all text is in a continuous chunk with no paragraphs

I'm using TinyMce textarea editor and have a problem. As you probably know Tinymce transforms a standard html textarea into a rich text editor.
On our 'edit listing' page we call up some text from our db for the user to edit (previously in a standard textarea, now in the tinymce textarea.
Previously the standard textarea would preserve linebreaks and the user would get several paragraphs of text in the text area, now with tinyMCE they get a huge chunk of text with no linebreaks. (I have pasted an example of an entry in our db below - as you can see it has line breaks in it by tinymce seems to be ignoring them when it displays them in the editor).
Just to clarify my issue is now that tinymce is stripping something when I submit the form, it's that when I pull text (that contains line breaks) from the db and populate the tinymce textarea with that data (for the user to edit) in the tinymce textarea - the text appears (in the tinymce textarea) as one massive chunk of text with my paragraphs (whereas in a standard textarea it is nicely formatted with linebreaks)
Any help on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated - do I need to use some sort of populate() type function to put the text in, or maybe I need to replace all the linebreaks with a different special character that tinyMCE will recognise as a line break and preserve?..
Thanks in advance.
Nick
example from db:
Here is line one
Here is line two
And here is line three
Which appears in tinymce as:
Here is line one Here is line two And here is line three
I faced a similar a problem, a while back and had questions just like yours. Also I finally ended up on SE just like you.
Anyway, I think I have the solution to your problem. If you are using PHP as your server side language, then you should use nl2br() PHP function.
Suppose you have stored your content fetched from the database in a php variable. Something like this:
$content = $row['content'];
Now when displaying it on to your screen, use the nl2br() function.
echo nl2br("<p>".$content."<p>");
Now, this part inside () depends on how you want to output the data. And I will leave it to you to figure that part out.
Hope this helps.

Stop nicEdit from creating <p> tags?

I have nicEdit implemented in the backend for uploading news items, and in the frontend each newsitem has a square in front of the beginning of the text body (image attached). This only occurs in the first paragraph of the text.
Due to the paragraph tags added by nicEdit, the text is displayed on a different line than the square. I have searched in the nicEdit docs and in previously answered questions on here but could not find a solution. Is there any way to change the paragraph formatting in nicEdit to use br at the end of a paragraph instead of having it wrap the text with p tags? Or if not, to have Nicdit automatically add the square to the beginning of each text?
Thank you in advance for any help!!
http://i.stack.imgur.com/dxxtu.png
Edit: Turns out the p tags were not caused by the nicedit but by the users copy-pasting the articles. I have used this to remove formatting from pasted text, but the tags are still there (it seems to only remove font properties).
As a temporary fix I have added the square to the nicedit wysiwyg as initial text, so that it is sent to the db along with the rest of the text and inside the same paragraph.
I realized there's a line in the code you modified that specifies all the unwanted tags. You should add the paragraph there.
Search for
/* remove undwanted tags */
newSnippet = newSnippet.replace(/<(div|span|style|meta|link){1}.*?>/gi,'');
in the nicEditorInstance class, and change it to
/* remove undwanted tags */
newSnippet = newSnippet.replace(/<(div|p|span|style|meta|link){1}.*?>/gi,'');
Notice the "p" has been added. That will prevent nicEdit to wrap the paragraphs in tags.