# How to represent break line in xml?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 1, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698 "2003-03-01T17:24:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@eudora](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eudora)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/1 "2003-03-01T17:24:52Z")
if i get the infomation from an xml file and display it in a textfield…
how can i represent a breakline in the xml file so that the textfield also have a new line?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/2 "2003-03-01T17:36:00Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/3 "2003-03-01T17:45:49Z")
```php
```
lets say this is the code
is this correct?
will the textfield show a newline?
[edited]
just a note that is part of a code from the xml file which i want the textfield to get information from
will the description appears as i want?
eg
test1
test2
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/4 "2003-03-01T18:53:20Z")
hmmz am i rite to say that xml wont allow me to do that?
cos i manage to get round this only by recoding the AS and the structure the XML file is…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/5 "2003-03-01T19:44:17Z")
just
\<\*\*event title=“Finally” description=“test1
test2” /\>
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/6 "2003-03-02T02:16:38Z")
senocular: this is not working
here is my xml file codes
```php
```
here is my AS to display it in a textfield called events\_txt
```php
calendar_mc.onDisplayEvent = function (eventsData,dateObj) {
var output_str;
var c = events_txt;
c.htmlText = "";
for (var i=0; i
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/7 "2003-03-02T02:40:39Z")
if you are using HTML text, use \<\*\*br\> instead
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/8 "2003-03-02T02:45:12Z")
like this
description=“test1\<-br-\>test2”
or
description=“test1” + \<-br-\> + “test2”
i tried both method and it is not working
wont even load the xml file properly
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/9 "2003-03-02T03:50:03Z")
well since you’re doing it from within an xml attribute, youd use this
&\*\*lt;br&\*\*gt;
otherwise the tags will screw with the xml formatting.
where were the \<- and -\> coming from?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/10 "2003-03-02T03:59:03Z")
oh the \<- and -\> is because i dun want to use the php codes…
hehe it is br without the -'s
wat is lt,br and gt?
br is break?
lt? line terminate?
oh and is it possible to make bold words in xml attributes?
where can i find more of such codes?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-represent-break-line-in-xml/14698/11 "2003-03-02T05:13:25Z")
&\*\*lt; and &\*\*gt; are html for Less Than (lt) and Greater Than (gt) just like a hard nonbreaking space &\*\*nbsp;
&\*\*lt;br&\*\*gt; is just \<\*\*br\> without messing with the xml