Issues with line breaks

[aahmyu 9]

Hello,

 

On my Nvidia shield the app is not handling the line breaks in the descriptions at all, and keep displaying the `br` tags which is not nice.

 

The web and android clients are displaying the texts correctly.

 

I'm using latest beta of everything.

 

regards

[Luke 42078]

Hi, we don't support html tags in overviews so I would suggest removing them.

[aahmyu 9]

Hi, we don't support html tags in overviews so I would suggest removing them.

Ok thanks, it is not a big of a deal. Just thought I'd let you know.

[daedalus 434]

Hi, we don't support html tags in overviews so I would suggest removing them.

not only that, you don't support any line breaks in the overview

[ebr 16184]

not only that, you don't support any line breaks in the overview

 

That isn't entirely true.  Whatever is being done here works (at least on Android TV)...

 

[daedalus 434]

so you don't know what works and what not? interesting

 

"(at least on Android TV)"

consistency, embys hobbyhorse

 

i've never seen any working one here at the apps i'm using

[Luke 42078]

We've already said on this forums, it's not supported, there's your consistency.

 

Until we're able to go through every single app and find a line break convention that will work, we do not consider it supported at all. If you want to hack it use use
, then go right ahead, just be aware it will not work in all apps.

[Luke 42078]

If you'd like to see this done sooner, then please file a feature request topic and we'll be able to prioritize it based on demand.

[speechles 2055]

@@daedalus For <br> to work usually requires entity mapping. Some of the Emby apps aren't doing entity mapping. The Roku I know it maps most html tags and removes ones it cannot render. This is the behavior you are seeing. While on Apple TV it would likely not work at all. They likely aren't mapping html entities within labels to their proper characters. Roku does for a few things(during json parsing) and I know <br> is one of those things. So like @@Luke said your mileage will vary. All the web based apps will work with it. Android, Theater, Web, etc...

 

The only real issue will be those iOS devices. They might not be handling this correctly as it isn't a standard. There is no standard for line break/new line. Some use \n. Some use \r. Some use \r\n. Some use <br>. Some use <hr> and want the horizontal ruler line. A standard would be nice. You should make the feature request... lol

Edited July 12, 2019 by speechles

[daedalus 434]

manually replacing fetched line breaks with the <br> tags is neither practical nor preferable

 

if i can add and see line breaks in the edit box, i also should see them displayed

 

 

If you'd like to see this done sooner, then please file a feature request topic and we'll be able to prioritize it based on demand.

i've learned my lesson, won't happen again