topic Re: Can you have multiple lines for a textSymbol? in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Can you have multiple lines for a textSymbol?

TracySchloss — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:02:38 GMT

Is it possible to create a stacked textSymbol? If so, what is the syntax for the linebreak?

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:09:05 GMT

in python it is "\n" in some environments it is "\r\n" might be worth a try since I found one example in this environment

TracySchloss — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:13:23 GMT

I tried \n already, but that didn't work. I also tried \r\n, but nothing. It just prints them as characters. I also tried <br>.

SteveCole — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:23:11 GMT

How about trying the ASCII character code for line break, carriage return, etc?

var text = 'This is line one' + String.fromCharCode(10) + 'This is line two';

TracySchloss — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:27:15 GMT

That didn't work, but this looks like a possibility. I haven't tried it yet. suytt/esri.symbol.MultiLineTextSymbol · GitHub

TracySchloss — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:23:19 GMT

Update: I couldn't get this to work for me either. Maybe it's too out of date, although it did say it was 2014, which isn't that old.

JoshHevenor — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:37:36 GMT

I usually just add two symbols and adjust the yoffset value. I'm guessing the same approach was wrapped up nicely in the referenced github lib.

weeyeo — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:42:36 GMT

Tracy, I able to get this to work. You can save the js file - esri.symbol.MultiLineTextSymbol.js and then just add this:

Hope this help.

Thanks.