h:outputText line break for long words within strings

Question

Is there a way to tell h:outputText of JSF (2.0) to insert a line break (or even better: A custom string like \"-\") into very long words within strings? My pro

Answer 1

you can use h:inputTextarea rather than h:outputText , don't remember set readonly attribute true and remove border like this:

<h:inputTextarea  rows="10" cols="50" readonly="true" value="multiline String"  style="border-color: white"  />

Answer 2

if you have very long word in String you can use word-break: break-all; like this:

<h:outputText value="111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111" style="word-break: break-all;"/>

but it required CSS3. link: word-break

Answer 3

This can be accomplished by two steps

1)Apply style as table-layout:fixed to the panelGrid

E.g: <h:panelGrid style="table-layout:fixed;">

2) Then apply style of word-wrap break-word to the <h:outputText /> as below.

E.g: <h:outputText style="word-wrap:break-word;">

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

 <h:outputText value="Very Wordy&lt;br /&gt;Table Column&lt;br /&gt;Heading" escape="false" />  

Output

Very Wordy
Table Column
Heading

Answer 5

Set CSS word-wrap property of the element in question to break-word.

<h:outputText styleClass="someClass" />

with

.someClass {
    word-wrap: break-word;
}