Rich Text and carriage return/line feed

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Rick - 01 Aug 2007 00:16 GMT

I have a large block of text that I am putting in a rich text field. I am
trying to force carriage return/line feeds at specific locations within the
text that the field is bound to. I've tried passing in \r\n but that doesn't
work. I've tried embedding <br /> and <div> tags but those are ignored and
displayed as part of the text in the field.

Are there any characters/codes that I can embed in the text of the xml node
that will cause a line feed in the rich text field?

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David Dean - 01 Aug 2007 02:46 GMT

In a rich text field, the formatting tags have to be inserted as XHTML
elements. If you try to use a rule to set the field value, you will get only
the textual content from the rule expression - any special characters are
replaced with XML entities (i.e. <br/> becomes <br/>).

However, you can modify a rich text element in form code by setting the
InnerXml property of the node to a string containing the XHTML text. This
will keep the formatting tags intact.

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> I have a large block of text that I am putting in a rich text field. I am
> trying to force carriage return/line feeds at specific locations within the
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> Are there any characters/codes that I can embed in the text of the xml node
> that will cause a line feed in the rich text field?

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