Line breaks in html input getting lost

[sicos1977]

Line breaks in html input getting lost

[Sicos1977]

This is normal HTML behavior, if you want to start on a new line you have to add the <br/> tag at the end.

line1<br/>
line2<br/>
line3<br/>

You can also use the <pre> tag, this preserves line feeds and enter at the end.

<pre>
line1
line2
line3
</pre>

[davidd4]

I can't agree. The whitespaces should not be removed from the text. They are characters too.

Please try it with your suggestion:

<pre>
line1
line2
line3
</pre>

and the result will be the same.

And it's wrong. The line breaks should be preserved, but they are removed in MsgKit code, in the method: Strings.GetEscapedRtf(BodyHtml);

Please check the attached .html file. My code is a valid html code, and it can be opened in any browser.
linebreaks.zip

[HarbinderGill]

I should probably add, that we generate html from a docx, and then convert to html using the open xml power tools. If we take that markup and view in a browser, all line breaks are preserved. If we display in an email, some of the line breaks disappear. I've had to put in a couple of regex patterns to replace empty spans with
to get around it.

[Sicos1977]

Whatever I try I just can't get outlook to show the message with the line breaks (enters). I even fixed the GetEscapedRtf method and that still gives the same problem. So I think it is an limitation in Outlook and for that I'll close this issue and something that I can't fix. When I view the body in the outlook message the HTML is showed correctly but it still Isn't correct in Outlook

[Sicos1977]

When I make a new message in Outlook and view the body then you'll see that Outlook converts my 3 lines to HTML with paragraph (p) tags in it.