[opencms-dev] How to stop changing line breaks in content bodies?

[Doug Schnelzer]

Hi all,

When OpenCMS "cleans up" the HTML in a content body it loses indentation and
changes where line breaks happen.  Unfortunately HTML is sometimes an art
and where line breaks happen can change the look of a page.

I think that the "cleaning up" and alternate line breaks are happening in
com.opencms.htmlconverter.CmsHtmlConverter which uses JTidy.  Can someone
confirm this and could I possible remove one of the "\n"s from the code to
stop the line breaks?

By the way, we are about to go live with a 400 page site we just redesigned
for a client.  OpenCMS has worked well for us.  When we go live in a couple
of weeks, I let everyone know so that we can add it to the list of "sites
that use OpenCMS".  As part of the project I extended the CmsXmlNav to
handle some complexities that I couldn't figure out how to do with the
provided navigation capabilities.  If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to
share my extended class.

Thanks for the help,

Doug Schnelzer
Digital Focus
571.276.5576