Hi Daniel,
Can you file an JIRA issue requesting this?
Thanks!
Manfred
On 4/19/2013 1:42 AM, Daniel Lichtenberger wrote:
> Hi Manfred,
>
> Sound nice - I'm not sure about the attribute name, since it requires
> that the user already knows the solution to the problem. Maybe
> "preserveLeadingNewlines" or something along these lines?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
>
> On 04/18/2013 04:12 PM, Manfred Riem wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> Would you be OK with something like this?
>>
>> <h:inputTextarea ....>
>> <f:attribute name="addNewLineAtStart" value="true">
>> </h:inputTextarea>
>>
>> If so we could add this without changing current behavior and thus
>> not break backwards compatibility
>>
>> Let me know what you think about this?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Manfred
>>
>> On 4/18/2013 4:37 AM, Daniel Lichtenberger wrote:
>>> Hi Manfred,
>>>
>>> On 04/11/2013 05:53 PM, Manfred Riem wrote:
>>>> I would suggest if you want to make sure that you don't lose
>>>> content to
>>>> add a \n at the beginning and the end on the server side of your
>>>> application.
>>>
>>> I also tried this, but it gets ugly very quickly (now you need a
>>> special getter for providing the value to the input).
>>>
>>>> Note you probably want to review your pages if you have more than one
>>>> page using the textarea tag and make sure they are all used in the
>>>> same
>>>> way.
>>>
>>> I believe the Rails guys fixed this by always writing a newline after
>>> the opening <textarea> tag, which (I think) would also work in JSF -
>>> note that the issue is specific to the textarea tag, as it _doesn't_
>>> trim leading whitespace (except the newline immediately following the
>>> opening tag).
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Manfred
>>>>
>>>> On 3/25/2013 2:14 PM, daniel.lichtenberger_at_gmx.net wrote:
>>>>> Hi Manfred,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the quick reply.
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you think the specification and thus the implementation of
>>>>> h:inputTextarea needs to
>>>>>> deal with this you probably are looking a specification issue, which
>>>>> are tracked at
>>>>>> the JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC jira issue tracker.
>>>>> I'm not sure how deep the issue goes - maybe the browser behaviour
>>>>> depends on the DOCTYPE? Were there any changes in the XML writers?
>>>>> Did
>>>>> each JSF application since 1.0 have this (admittedly obscure) issue
>>>>> with textareas? Did older, less standards-conformant browsers behave
>>>>> differently? I'd like to hear if other people had/have this problem,
>>>>> too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>
>>