Read & Write a file in a jsp page without modifying the alignment

Can anyone guide me how to print a file in jsp page without changing the alignment of the text..?

Eg: while uploading,

Java Ranch
Friendly Place
for
greenhorns

But,while in reading and writing into a jsp page.,it prints as,

Java Ranch Friendly Place for greenhorns

how to Preserve the alignment ..?

HTML, which is what JSPs generate, handle whitespace differently. Any occurrence of one or more whitespace characters (including line breaks) are treated as one single space, unless they are in a <pre> block. To include a line break in non-<pre> blocks you should use <br>.

Rob Spoor wrote:HTML, which is what JSPs generate, handle whitespace differently. Any occurrence of one or more whitespace characters (including line breaks) are treated as one single space, unless they are in a <pre> block. To include a line break in non-<pre> blocks you should use <br>.

Is that like this in the http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/block/pre.html

or

Could you please elaborate it using an example..

That's exactly what I meant with the <pre> block.

An example with <br> is easy. Just put the following into a simple HTML file and view it in your browser:

Thanks Rob..

I tried with your assistance & its working.

But the issue is.,whenever the file has a long lines,a part of the long line is omitted while printing that page.

when i tried to check for 80-100 characters in each line., the alignment in the page making a big difference.Specially in the case of paragraphs..