By NeoID on

When adding a comment, or writing a new node, I want Drupal to respect whitespace.
Like... if I press return a couple of times I want the output to have the corresponding space between the lines.

Is it possible to do this? I've tried to change the input-filter without any luck...

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roxy317’s picture

roxy317 commented

In SITE CONFIGURATION=>INPUT FILTER you need to "configure" the input type you are using. Make sure you have "Line break converter" selected under filters. That should solve the problem.

Roxy

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NeoID commented

It is turned on... Do I have to update the list of allowed html tags maybe?

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groenm commented

The only easy way to have this done, is enclose the comment in <pre>-tags. Your problem is that the HTML standard requires HTML-renderers to contract spureous whitespace. The only exception is the <pre>-tag for preformatted text. Usually browsers display text in <pre>-tags with a monospaced font, although this can be addressed through CSS.

If you don't want your users to enter the <pre>-tags, you should modify your template files.

Mark

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NeoID commented

Wow.. I didn't know that... thanks for the info!
What's the easiest way of wrapping the comment-form with pre-tags?

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NeoID commented

I just noticed that this method breaks the smiley module, they are not longer rendered as they should... :<

groenm’s picture

groenm commented

I can imagine smileys don't work anymore. Nor any other kind of formatting. The idea of the <pre>-tag is that you use "ascii-formatting".

If you want to get around using the <pre>-tag, your users can use the <br> to force a line break in normal HTML. However, the have to enter the <br>-tag themselves.

Alternatively, you might want to write your own input filter that replaces every line break the user enters with a <br>-tag. That will probably be the most user friendly solution.

EDIT: Or maybe this module can help you do what you want: http://drupal.org/project/customfilter It allows you to define your own filter rules with regular expressions. I guess you will be able to replace line ends with <br>-tags (or at least insert <br>-tags.

Mark

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groenm commented

The markup of comments is done in the template file comment.tpl.php in your theme.

Mark