Question

I found some great javascript code(xpHTMLMail file) to be able to create an HTML e-mail that the users create on the fly from an xpage document that they write a review on a salesperson. However, there are some Multiline edit boxes on there and they have carriage returns, spaces, etc in them. These do not come over when they are added to the HTML. Anything I can do to keep the formatting for the e-mail that is created? Thanks in advance.

Here’s the code that deals with this part of my question(inputClosing is a Multiline Edit Box):

mail.addHTML("<br /><br /><b>Closing</b><br />"+getComponent('inputClosing').getValue())

If inputClosing has…

“Dear Joe,

Great work. Keep it up!

Thanks,
Bill”

It comes into the email as…

Dear Joe, Great Work. Keep it up! Thanks, Bill

Answer 1

I wrote that library so thanks!

Since you’re creating an HTML mail, you need to replace the line breaks in the value of the Multiline Edit Box by <br /> tags. Since you’re dealing with Java in XPages, the line breaks are stored in the value using the \r\n sequence.

You can replace them using the the replaceAll() or (SSJS) @ReplaceSubstring() function.

Your code might then look like this:

var content:string = getComponent("inputClosing").getValue();   
mail.addHTML("<b>Closing</b><br />" + content.replaceAll("\r\n", "<br />") );