TAL Syntax to List Information from a Multiline Text Field

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I have a Dexterity Multiline Text field called dcdl_priority with 3 lines of information separated by hitting the return key:

Sentence 1
Sentence 2
Sentence 3

I have the following codes in my view template:

<tr tal:condition="context/dcdl_attention">
<td><strong>DCDL Attention:</strong></td>
<td><span tal:content="context/dcdl_attention" /></td>
</tr>

This is what I get:

Sentence 1 Sentence 2 Sentence 3

I would like the input displayed on my page in the follow way:

Sentence 1
Sentence 2
Sentence 3

I am sure my TAL codes are incorrect. Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you.

3

Read the docs

https://docs.plone.org/external/plone.app.dexterity/docs/advanced/rich-text-markup-transformations.html#using-rich-text-fields-in-templates

4

Andreas, yes, I have seen that documentation. My bad, I realized that my title is incorrect. I am looking at a multiline text field and not a richtext field. This is what I tried so far:

<tr tal:condition="context/dcdl_attention">
    <td><strong>DCDL Attention:</strong></td>
    <td><span tal:content="structure context/body/output" /></td>
</tr>

<tr tal:condition="context/dcdl_attention">
    <td><strong>DCDL Attention:</strong></td>
    <td><span tal:content="structure context/dcdl_attention/body/output" /></td>
</tr>

My page no longer loads.

5

In my opinion, you should use schema.List and not Textfield, that way you could index your field easier (?) also.

If that was the case, the TAL would be something like:

<td tal:repeat"dcdl_line context/dcdl_attention">
    ${dcdl_line}
</td>
6

Espen, yes, that would be a better option if we had a set list. However, we would like people to add their own statements, one per line. I guess I could actually use a richtext field to do so but I was curious if I could list out the statements one per line from a multi-textfield.

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You could do that in a list too, I think

You could probably do that too, but it feels more natural to put this logic in a py file instead of in the browser view

You might be able to do it with similar syntax to what I suggested (not sure what you mean by 'multi-textfield'), you could try …

8

I'm sure I've done this before.. after a quick search I found this option, tough I don't remember if it was the fix. Try to wrap the content in a <pre>

<pre tal:content="context/dcdl_attention" />
9

If you use pre, you might need to add some CSS

10

Chrissy and Espen, thank you so much! The <pre> tag and white-space CSS property did the trick. Thank you so much!!!