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May 3, 2022
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Showing returns and extra spaces in a help tooltip

  • May 3, 2022
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I have a use case where I am displaying user entered data in a help tooltip.  The users would like the tooltip text to reflect returns and extra spaces that were entered.  Is there any way to do this?  Creative options welcome!

Best answer by mikes0011

This is expected behavior as of now.  I agree with you in general - I've long wanted an option to display some more advanced formatting inside tooltip / mouseover data, and i believe Appian is aware that this is a dev wishlist item, but I'm guessing it's pretty low on their backlog.  If you have a strong product use case for it though, I'd encourage you to open a support case directly with Appian support and get it logged with them.

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richardm900458
May 3, 2022

Not sure what the issue is.
if you entered spaces into a string, it should be reflected if you call that string as text output somewhere else.Am I wrong on this?

mikes0011
Brainy
May 3, 2022

Help Tooltip shows text as if it's been passed through the trim() function or equivalent, IIRC.  As in, no linebreaks, and no extra spaces.

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richardm900458
May 3, 2022

aaaah nice to know.