String automatically trimed in Data Table

Hi,

<x:dataTable id="L_ALDD" first = "#{pagination.firstRowIndex}" rows="#{pagination.noOfRowsToShow}" styleClass="datatablecontentleft" var="CT4" value="#{courseAction.courseList}" border="0" summary="Admin LDCS data" rowId="#{CT4.courseId41}">

<f:verbatim><caption></caption></f:verbatim>

<x:column styleClass="cctfix">

<x:inputText id="LDCT_T4" maxlength="125" styleClass="#{CT4.courseTitleColumnColor}" value="#{CT4.courseTitle}" readonly="true" onmouseout="htt()" onmouseover="stt(event,this.value);return false" onclick="LDCTPopup(this,0,#{CT4.rowReadOnly})" forceId="true" onkeydown="tF(event,this)"/>

<h:graphicImage id="LDCT_I4" styleClass="esimg" value="#{CT4.courseTitleColumnMessageIcon}" onclick="showErrorMessage('#{CT4.courseTitleColumnMessageText}')" onmouseout="htt()" onmouseover="stt(event,'#{CT4.courseTitleColumnMessageText}','erroricon');return false" alt="" title="" />

</x:column>

<f:facet name="footer">

</f:facet>

</x:dataTable>

This is my part of coding.. while clicking the column a small popup will open with an input box.. If i enter a lengthy String as input it got automatically trimed rater to say it remove considerable amount of white spaces(not fully though).. i wonder y.. can u suggest me..

Ananth.duraia at 2007-7-12 9:42:05 >

Apparently this also doesn't work with only a monospaced font. But in the HTML source I still see the spaces. And also still in the managed bean (do a system.out.println of this value to the console during the action method). To show the spaces anyway, you have to show the string as preformatted text. This can be done in 2 ways: put it inside a <pre> tag or apply white-space:pre; to the CSS of the element.

BalusCa at 2007-7-12 9:42:05 >

The spaces are trimmed inside the input component?

Anyway, I used Sun's JSF RI implementation wile trying to reproduce the problem. As I cannot reproduce this, it is likely caused by Tomahawk somehow. Try to play with default Sun JSF RI implementation.

JSF<h:form>

<h:inputText value="#{myBean.input}" />

<h:commandButton value="submit" action="#{myBean.action}" />

</h:form>

<h:outputText value="not formatted: #{myBean.output}" />

<h:outputText value="pre formatted: #{myBean.output}" style="white-space: pre;" />

MyBeanprivate String input;

private String output;

public void action() {

System.out.println(input);

output = input;

}

public String getInput() {

return input;

}

public void setInput(String input) {

this.input = input;

}

public String getOutput() {

return output;

}

BalusCa at 2007-7-12 9:42:05 >