Carriage return \n in text box

Anvil Q&A
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A silly question- how do you capture a carriage return \n in a text box?

2

Do you mean detect when enter is pressed? If so there’s a “pressed_enter” event for a text box.

Or did you mean something else?

3

Do you want a TextBox or a TextArea?

A TextBox contains a single line. Pressing Enter in that box triggers the pressed_enter event.

A TextArea contains multiple lines. Pressing Enter in that box inserts a newline (\n) character.

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If you meant TextArea then you could check on the “change” event the last character and see if it’s a newline character. Eg (untested) :

if TextArea.text.endswith("\n"):
  do_something
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Ah - thanks. I was trying to let the user enter a slightly longer text field with a couple paragraphs. I just needed to user the TextArea vs TextBox. Thx.