how can I create a line break in a flash string?

[f5leeba]

I am calling to a large string that is separate paragraphs. I just don know how to put line breaks in flash actionscript. Can anyone help me?

example

tLabel.text = "blah blah blah blah (then a return with a tab indent) blah blah blah"

I just want my paragraphs to show up seperated when the text loads in the textField. Not to appear like one long string of on going sentences.

Thanks,

Nathan

[xNephilimx]

Hi f5leeba, welcome to TSDN!
To put line breaks use the special newline character \n where you want a line break. Also enable word wrapping and multiline, so it automatically wraps the text.

something like this (notice the \n):
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\nconsectetuer adipiscing elit.

Will be renderd as this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetuer adipiscing elit.

Kind regards,
The_Nephilim

I am calling to a large string that is separate paragraphs. I just don know how to put line breaks in flash actionscript. Can anyone help me?

example

tLabel.text = "blah blah blah blah (then a return with a tab indent) blah blah blah"

I just want my paragraphs to show up seperated when the text loads in the textField. Not to appear like one long string of on going sentences.

Thanks,

Nathan

[uncleunvoid]

this does not seem to work.

my string comes up as something\nsomething

has this been tested with htmlText texfields?

PS I cant use <br> as my text comes from an xml file and adding <br> there breaks the XML tags.

using flash CS3 actionscript3

Hi f5leeba, welcome to TSDN!
To put line breaks use the special newline character \n where you want a line break. Also enable word wrapping and multiline, so it automatically wraps the text.

something like this (notice the \n):
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\nconsectetuer adipiscing elit.

Will be renderd as this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetuer adipiscing elit.

Kind regards,
The_Nephilim

[rsdev]

this does not seem to work.

my string comes up as something\nsomething

has this been tested with htmlText texfields?

PS I cant use <br> as my text comes from an xml file and adding <br> there breaks the XML tags.

using flash CS3 actionscript3

Check out this link on using CDATA in XML, then you can add <br> to an htmlText textFIeld.


http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

[branr62]

you could also use \r\n, which adds a paragraph break, rather than a new line break.

Hoped this helped!