Re: How to get text from textarea as html

TextArea.getText() gives you exactly the text with all white spaces and line breaks.

Its just that you can't put that text into a HTML element, because the browser will remove every line break and also trims down the white spaces to one.

If you want to display that text, you have to use the <pre> tag or apply the CSS property "white-space:pre" to any HTML element that should contain the text from the textarea.

Example:

  @Override

  public void onModuleLoad() {

    final Label label = new Label();

    final Label preLabel = new Label();

    preLabel.getElement().getStyle().setProperty("whiteSpace", "pre");

    final PreElement pre = Document.get().createPreElement();

    final TextArea textarea = new TextArea();

    textarea.setSize("300px", "200px");

    Button button = new Button("Read text");

    button.addClickHandler(new ClickHandler() {

      @Override

      public void onClick(final ClickEvent event) {

        String text = textarea.getText();

        System.out.println(text);

        label.setText(text);

        preLabel.setText(text);

        pre.setInnerText(text);

      }

    });

    RootPanel.get().add(textarea);

    RootPanel.get().add(button);

    RootPanel.get().add(new Label("------ LABEL -------"));

    RootPanel.get().add(label);

    RootPanel.get().add(new Label("------ PRE ELEMENT -------"));

    RootPanel.get().getElement().appendChild(pre);

    RootPanel.get().add(new Label("------ LABEL (with CSS white-space:pre applied) -------"));

    RootPanel.get().add(preLabel);

  }

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