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Infopath 2010 TextArea not wrapping text, browser view source reveals "white-space: pre"

I have a strange problem with InfoPath 2010. It seems that when using a text with multiline the default formatting will be "white-space: pre" which prevents the text to break at the end of the field. It will only break if enter is manually pressed.

In my case, this is not acceptable. I do not know if it is possible to attache any CSS with my form. This would of course solve my problem.

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Any other ideas that could help me crack this one?

Solution

  • Well, I had to solve this quickly so I had to do it the "ugly" way... I opened the xsl-files that had the problem and added the following code:

      <style>
     textarea{
        white-space: normal !important;
     }
  </style>

    Then I right-clicked on my "manifest.xsf", selected "design" and published... And voilà!

    Let's hope the form won't break later due to those changes. (Hint: Always back up your code before doing changes to the source-files in InfoPath)...