topic Re: Newline or carriage return in TextSymbol in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Newline or carriage return in TextSymbol

AndrewJones — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:28:42 GMT

Is there anyway to make a TextSymbol multi-lined? Our map is quite small and many of the labels go off the map so I need to reduce the width of the label by putting some values onto two lines.

The product manager does not want to use a popup as it must look like a label.

Any clues?

Re: Newline or carriage return in TextSymbol

JeffPace — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:14:44 GMT

Is there anyway to make a TextSymbol multi-lined? Our map is quite small and many of the labels go off the map so I need to reduce the width of the label by putting some values onto two lines.

The product manager does not want to use a popup as it must look like a label.

Any clues?

I don't have a sample in front of me to test, but have your tried \\n in the text?

Re: Newline or carriage return in TextSymbol

JesseAdams — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:48:50 GMT

Did anyone ever find a solution to this? I'm trying to do the same thing but \n or \r don't work. Any other suggestions?

Re: Newline or carriage return in TextSymbol

GISAdmin1 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:20:43 GMT

Bump - I too have the same question. Is it possible to have multiline text rendered via TextSymbol?

Thanks!

M

Re: Newline or carriage return in TextSymbol

derekswingley1 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:25:40 GMT

Not at this time, this is a limitation in the API (and underlying dojox.gfx components we use). We're looking at how we can fix this in the future.

Re: Newline or carriage return in TextSymbol

SimonUyttendaele — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:05:19 GMT

Hello,

Using newlines "\n" can be supported using the following solution.

Please vote upon the following idea which is precisely about this.

Regards

Re: Newline or carriage return in TextSymbol

JohnChurchill — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:59:04 GMT

What solution? There is nothing here in these links.

Re: Newline or carriage return in TextSymbol

Anonymous User — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:08:37 GMT

I just found this on github: Chaussette/esri.symbol.MultiLineTextSymbol · GitHub from a comment by Simon in ArcGIS Ideas.

However when you include the script src use (or host it yourself):

"https://rawgit.com/Chaussette/esri.symbol.MultiLineTextSymbol/master/esri.symbol.MultiLineTextSymbol.js"