hi i have a string as follows in a java bean : this should put \r\n this sentence in \r\n two lines.

when i retrieve this in my jsp it displays as a single line.

i am using JSTL in my jsp, and since the escape sequence are not identified in html i replaced the "\r\n" with "<bR>" but when i see the page it comes as follows:
this should put <br> this sentence in <br> two lines.
and if u see the source it is like:
this should put &lt;br&gt; this sentence in &lt;br&gt; two lines.

i would like to know how to resolve this and also how to replace multiple \r, \n, in any sequence, with a single <BR>

Thanks in advance

Um, are you sure you're doing a String.replace("\r\n", "<br>") ? It seems like you're doing String.replace("\r\n", "&lt;br&gt;") instead. Please confirm that you've tried simply "<br>" and used c:out with source="true".

Jon Emerson
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