• Cut Adding And Carriage Return Characters For Mac

Several readers have asked about what appears to be a missing feature in Pages 5 compared to the previous version: finding special “invisible” items, such as tab, a carriage return (at the end of a paragraph), page break insertion, and the like. It seems like you can type a space character in the Find dialog ( Edit Find) and nothing else that can’t be seen. Apple seems to emphasize this in its online help: “All visible content in the document—the main body text, headers and footers, tables, text boxes, shapes, footnotes and endnotes, and comments—is included in the search.” Visible content, it says. Invisible characters can be displayed with View Show Invisibles. It’s often useful to be able to search against hidden characters in documents you receive from elsewhere, where you need to remove extra line returns, tabs, spaces, or other oddities that would be time-consuming to hunt and fix by hand.

However, there is a non-obvious workaround in Pages 5 to find those critters, and a second alternative if it’s really bothering you. First, how to get around this within Pages 5:.

Turn on Show Invisibles to make it easier to type and find what you want to change ( View Show Invisibles). (Each character has a special symbol; see for the full rundown.). In the body of the file, type the special characters or sequences you want to search on. Select that character or those characters. Choose Edit Find Use Selection for Find. Pages 5's Find box has the invisible characters in it, but can’t show them.

Now the Find dialog has that sequence in its Find field, even though it’s both invisible and can’t be modified. You can see that it works by the found count in gray at the right side of the Find field. The other option is to leave Pages 5 entirely. Choose File Export To Word.

Launch Applications TextEdit, a largely hidden powerhouse of text-editing help built in to OS X and the NeXT’s OSes before it. Open the exported file; TextEdit can natively handle Word files. Chose Edit Find. A Find field appears at the top of the window.

Click the magnifying glass and choose Insert Pattern. You can now select from a variety of special, invisible characters. TextEdit offers a more advanced option for finding and replacing special characters.

You can edit directly in the file and when you save, it updates in Word format. You can then open that file directly within Pages 5 when you’re finished. You may have to mess a bit with formatting after this round-trip. Ask Mac 911 We’re always looking for problems to solve! Email yours to including screen captures as appropriate.

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As silly as it may sound, I still haven't found an appropriate answer. Let's say I want to dynamically create a new DOM element and fill up its textContent/innerText with a JS string literal. The string is so long I would like to split it into three chunks: var h1 = document.createElement('h1'); h1.textContent = 'This is a very long string and I would like to insert a carriage return HERE. Moreover, I would like to insert another carriage return HERE.

So this text will display in a new line'; The problem is, if i write h1.textContent = '.I would like to insert a carriage return here. N'; it doesn't work, probably because the browser considers the ' n' to be pure text and displays it as such (the r doesn't work either). On the other hand, I could change the h1.innerHTML instead of the textContent and write: h1.innerHTML = '.I would like to insert a carriage return here.' ; Here the would do the job, but doing so would replace not just the text content but all the HTML content of my h1, which is not quite what I want. Is there a simple way to solve my problem?

I wouldn't resort to creating multiple block elements just to have the text on different lines. Any idea would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. I know this question posted long time ago. I had similar problem few days ago, passing value from web service in json format and place it in table cell contentText.

Cut Adding And Carriage Return Characters For Mac

Because value is passed in format, for example, 'text row1 r ntext row2' and so on. For new line in textContent You have to use r n and, finally, I had to use css white-space: pre-line; (Text will wrap when necessary, and on line breaks) and everything goes fine. Or, You can use only white-space: pre; and then text will wrap only on line breaks (in this case r n).

So, there is example how to solve it with wrapping text only on line breaks. I ran into this a while ago. I found a good solution was to use the ASCII representation of carriage returns (CODE 13).

JavaScript has a handy feature called String.fromCharCode which generates the string version of an ASCII code, or multiple codes separate by a comma. In my case, I needed to generate a CSV file from a long string and write it to a text area.

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I needed to be able to cut the text from the text area and save it into notepad. When I tried to use the method it would not preserve the carriage returns, however, using the fromCharCode method it does retain the returns. See my code below: h1.innerHTML += '.I would like to insert a carriage return here.'

+ String.fromCharCode(13); h1.innerHTML += 'Ant the other line here.' + String.fromCharCode(13); h1.innerHTML += 'And so on.' + String.fromCharCode(13); h1.innerHTML += 'This prints hello: ' + String.fromCharCode(72,69,76,76,79); See here for more details on this method: See here for ASCII codes. This is just plain wrong, On many levels.

13 is carriage return. It can be equivalently written as ' r' ( ' r' String.fromCharCode(13) gives true).

Unless you are on Classic Mac, it is the wrong character for newline. Newline is ASCII 10, or ' n'. However in HTML the only newline is. Both r and n are rendered as space except in. The innerText and innerHtml however convert both characters to for convenience, so it happens to work. I have not checked the specification whether it works by design (and I would not believe that much). – Jun 1 '15 at 15:46.

You could use regular expressions to replace the ' n' or ' n r' characters with '. You have this: var h1 = document.createElement('h1'); h1.textContent = 'This is a very long string and I would like to insert a carriage return HERE.

Moreover, I would like to insert another carriage return HERE. So this text will display in a new line'; you can replace your characters like this: h1.innerHTML = h1.innerHTML.replace(/ n r?/g, '); check the javascript reference for the String and Regex objects.