correctly display a field

volnistii11

Hello, how can I correctly display a field that is edited using a tag "textarea"?
In the textarea itself, everything is displayed correctly, for example:

Mike
Ruby
Ilia

And with the usual output of the table, until I started editing, the output is as follows:

Mike Ruby Ilia

rf1234

until I started editing, the output is as follows:

that means after editing everything is ok? Then you probably don't have line feeds in the non edited text.

volnistii11

The first picture shows how I enter textarea.
On the second, how it is taken out of the base. I need it to be displayed in the same way as in textarea.

rf1234

I guess you would need a WYSIWYG editor for this. I am using Quill for example but there are others as well.

Just take a look at the field type plug-ins here:
https://editor.datatables.net/plug-ins/field-type/

An alternative could be to check the input of the textarea server side for line breaks and then save HTML <br> tags in the field. Don't know whether that would work. You would need to experiment.

If your requirement is a line break after every word then it is even simpler: Just a renderer client side that inserts HTML <br> tags will do for that.

I use Quill because I wanted MS Word like text formatting in my text field.

allan

Yup - I would have expected what you are seeing to happen since the textarea's newlines are just \n, which is just whitespace in HTML and HTML doesn't really care about whitespace.

The easiest option would be to use columns.render to change the \n into <br> for the HTML output: http://live.datatables.net/palabavu/2/edit .

Allan