Insert new line in struts2 messages.properties

Question

I want to display the error message in two lines in Struts2

User Name is not valid
Password is not valid

and my property is:

username.password.errrorMsg: User Name is not valid \n Password is not valid.

I added \n but its displaying in single line.

Can you suggest to display in two lines?

Answer 1

If you use a message format then \n symbol add a new line character. If you want to display this message with actionerror or actionmessage tags you need to use <br> and let it not escape. For example

<s:actionmessage escape="false"/> 

Answer 2

Because new line/breaking character depends on where do you use/show message it is better to use different messages for that.

invalid.userName = User Name is not valid
invalid.password = Password is not valid

In this way you can use them separately in case you want to show specific message and display them as you want.

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If you displaying them in HTML/JSP using S2 <s:text> tag then <br/> should work. But several tags are escaping HTML so for example to use this kind of message in <s:property> with getText() you need to set escapeHTML attribute to false.

Answer 3

Probably < br/> (without the space between < and b :P), as the output format is html.