Linebreaks in Text

Anvil Q&A
1

What I’m trying to do:
Attempting to have a string returned from a server module, that grabs the text from a table, display in a rich text content field. New lines are showing up raw as “\n”, not as an actual new line

What I’ve tried and what’s not working:
Tried replacing it with <br>, messing with formats.
Tried converting to string

Code Sample:
Server Module:

@anvil.server.callable
def get_class_desc(classNameIn):
  classDesc = [r['classDesc'] for r in app_tables.classes_info.search(className=classNameIn)]
  classDescStr = classDesc
  return classDescStr

Client side:


  def drop_down_1_change(self, **event_args):
    classDescDisplay = anvil.server.call('get_class_desc', self.classSelect.selected_value)
    self.classDescTextDisplay.content = classDescDisplay
    pass

Client side with string conversion:

  def classSelect_show(self, **event_args):
    classDescDisplay = str(anvil.server.call('get_class_desc', self.classSelect.selected_value))
    classDescDisplay = classDescDisplay[2:-2]
    self.classDescTextDisplay.content = classDescDisplay
    pass
2

Only way I could get it to work was just using restricted-html to display instead and using <br>, oh well.

3

Rich text may need two consecutive new lines (I’m on the phone now and I can’t try)