How to put carriage return in MessageResource.properties?

[Jonilie Echavez]

My Struts MessageResource.properties file has the following key, where i wanted to insert a carriage return after the message.

error.duplicate=Duplicate record found.\n

But in the output of the jsp file, the message is displayed with the '\n' instead of the carriage return expected.

Output:
Duplicate record found.\n

How do i properly insert this escape character?

[Dawn Charangat]

Did you try:

error.duplicate=Duplicate record found.<br>

[Prakash Mani - Attur]

hi Jonilie Echavez

i think you want to display the error message in the list format. if your aim is so then use the following.

errors.header=<UL><font color="red" face="Arial" size="1">
errors.prefix=<LI>
errors.suffix=</LI>
errors.footer=</font></UL>

put the above in the top of the properties file.

[David Newton]

Personally, I think it's a bad idea to keep formatting information like this in a resource file.

[Prakash Mani - Attur]

hi david
then how to show the errors in the list format. i cant use the <li> tag every where i have to show the error message in the jsp file. please tell me the alternate idea you have.

[Sean Clark]

Hey,

I'm not sure what you are doing when you output this error message, so this may not be relevent but I reckon that you could avoid this issue with the use of CSS and properly formatting your HTML. If for example you're trying to get the errors to appear next to an input then take a look at this tutorial: http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/fancy-form-design-css/7

If you are wanting it to appear in a list form (I'm assuming here that you take in a list of error messages) do it in the JSP and certainly not from your messages file:

<c:if test="${errors != null && not empty errors}">
  <ul>
    <c:forEach items="${errors}" var="error">
      <li>${error}</li> 
    </c:forEach>
  </ul>
</c:if>

I have to say though the most simple way is just to style it using some html/css.

Sean

[David Newton]

Prakash Attur wrote:hi david
then how to show the errors in the list format. i cant use the <li> tag every where i have to show the error message in the jsp file. please tell me the alternate idea you have.

Why not? Or why not create a custom tag to do it?

My point is that embedding things like <br> tags in the resource file is a pain, and explicitly ties the error message to the page layout. The idea behind things like resource files is to separate concerns.

[Prakash Mani - Attur]

oh yes very good idea...thanks David..