django newline problem

Question

hi all,

i am using django for development. retriving some text with newline from database. but when i render it to template and print in template do not show newline char.

what is the porblem ?? plz any one , if can help me

BR// Nazmul

Answer 1

Not sure if I totally understand your question, but try using the linebreaks filter.

{{ value|linebreaks }}

Answer 2

You have to remember that your templates are producing HTML. In HTML, a newline character is just another white space, it doesn't mean to put the following text onto a new line. There are a number of ways to force new lines in HTML.

You can wrap your text with a <pre> tag so that HTML will understand that it is preformatted:

<pre>{{value}}</pre>

You can use Django filters to convert your plain text newlines into HTML. linebreaks turns single newlines into <br> tags, and double newlines into <p> tags. linebreaksbr just turns newlines into <br> tags:

{{value|linebreaks}}
{{value|linebreaksbr}}

You can experiment with these to see which you like better.

Failing that, you can use string manipulation in your view to convert your plain text into HTML in a way that suits you better. And if you want to get really advanced, you can write your own filter that converts the way you like, and use it throughout your templates.