Line break in Facebook status update via Graph API

Question

I'm writing a simple Facebook status update web app that uses Graph API. It works well except for when I'd like to include a line break in the status message. I've tried adding a simple HTML
tag, but this is just rendered as text.

Anyone know if this is possible, and if so, how?

score 26 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 17 '12 at 22:13

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It sounds silly, but this works: Insert <center></center> where you would normally put <br>.

edited Jan 17 '12 at 22:13

pmr

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answered Apr 15 '11 at 15:54

heksemann

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Put for you need than one
– Prabhat Jul 29 '11 at 10:18
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Both and works for me. – Johan B Feb 17 '12 at 18:26
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In iOS, this does NOT work for preview of text (shows which looks ugly), but DOES work once posted to wall! – ayreguitar Jun 16 '12 at 07:58
Update: Preview shows the text in the Description part of a post. But preview looks fine if use the Caption part of the post instead! – ayreguitar Jun 16 '12 at 10:57
Both and worked for me too – mas Jul 08 '12 at 13:45
This isn't working for me from the javascript API. Any new solutions? – Jeemusu Oct 31 '12 at 02:12
For anyone who may be interested, \n is now working for me, from the javascript API. – Jeemusu Oct 31 '12 at 02:16
and \n does not work for me in description field of link – Dejell Dec 03 '12 at 08:03
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I've tried , \n, \r\n from php sdk, Nothing works for me, at the moment. Any suggestions ? – Piyuesh Aug 01 '13 at 08:45
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Answer of Roger Gajraj is working as of Mar 19, 2014. – Abiel Paltao Mar 19 '14 at 06:59

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 12 '12 at 15:25

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\r\n seems to work just fine to get line breaks in facebook

answered Oct 12 '12 at 15:25

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Don't forget to use double quotes in Php for this to work. – Jonathan Czitkovics Jan 24 '18 at 16:28

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 15 '15 at 11:45

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If you're using PHP or any language just add chr(10) and this will add a break :) ASCII Solution :P

answered Jul 15 '15 at 11:45

Harsh Vardhan Ladha

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the only one that wroks from me! Code for sample: 'message' => 'Line 1 '.chr(10).' Line 2', – TheBosti Jul 25 '16 at 20:14
This is the correct answer. Others solutions doesn't work now – w3spi Jan 29 '19 at 18:58

MotsManish · Answer 4 · 2012-07-08T11:29:22.083

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Please observe the new line that is used in the below code (an enter is hit inside the editor), that serves the purpose of adding new line to a post at a specific location:

    $fb_status_with_new_line = "Text before new line" . "
    " . "Text after new line";

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answered Jun 09 '12 at 11:58

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score 7 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 17 '12 at 22:14

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If you replace return characters (\r) with new line characters (\n) you can achieve the desired result.

Enjoy...

edited Jan 17 '12 at 22:14

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answered Jan 17 '12 at 21:46

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Don't forget to use double quotes in Php for this to work. – Jonathan Czitkovics Jan 24 '18 at 16:28

score 5 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 14 '12 at 00:55

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%0A might work, i think i used that on one of my apps before.

HTML Decimal: &#10;
HTML Hexadecimal: &#x0A;
Java Hexadecimal: \u000A (Common To Javascript)
URL Hexadecimal: %0A
Escape Sequence: \n

HTML tag : <br>

Hope these come in handy :)

answered Feb 14 '12 at 00:55

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score 4 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 26 '13 at 23:43

As of Dec 2013, this works (break lines in code):

$facebook->api('/me/feed', 'post', array('message'=> 'Line 1
                                             Line 2
                                             Line 3
                                             Line 4',
                                             'cb' => ''));

score 4 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 01 '14 at 10:03

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I've tried <center></center> it didn't work. I've tried <br> it didn't work. I've tried with invisible html characters, it didn't work. I've tried with '\n' it didn't work.

However when I used "\n" instead of '\n' it worked. But this was recognized directly by the php before it was uploaded to facebook. So my suggestion is using double quotes with string messages in facebook posts.

answered Oct 01 '14 at 10:03

David

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Oddly enough, this is the only answer that worked for me as of June 2015 – ctown4life Jun 03 '15 at 00:28
I use the messenger API, and this is the reverse : the only thing that works is putting the 2-char string '\n', and not the newline char "\n". – ofaurax Sep 01 '16 at 13:49

score 2 · Answer 9 · answered May 08 '15 at 08:41

If you are using PHP, you can do like this:

$message = str_replace('\r\n', "\n", $message); // input is from textarea
$ret_obj = $facebook->api('/me/photos', 'POST', array(
                                             'source' => '@' . $photo['file_source'],
                                             'message' => $message)
                                            );

Please use double quote "\n" instead '\n'

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 17 '13 at 05:21

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\n Worked Its smallest an easiest way to add line breaks

answered Mar 17 '13 at 05:21

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No , no
just "\n" simple and easy! – Mário Carvalho Sep 04 '13 at 11:38

score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Apr 10 '13 at 11:13

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You need to add carriage return i.e \n\r because facebook accept only enter for new line.

answered Apr 10 '13 at 11:13

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score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Oct 08 '14 at 11:40

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\n works. You just need to add it to the message param

answered Oct 08 '14 at 11:40

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score 1 · Answer 13 · answered Aug 22 '16 at 20:28

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\n working I checked now on twitter. $post = $connection->post('statuses/update', array('status' => "first line \n second line")); Just do it like so, It will work for other social media also

answered Aug 22 '16 at 20:28

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score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Sep 01 '16 at 13:52

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I use the messenger API with PHP. For me, the string '\n' is working. Beware that this is not the newline character (aka "\n"). No, it's '\' followed by 'n', aka "plain antislash-N".

answered Sep 01 '16 at 13:52

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Oct 29 '13 at 07:20

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if You are using iOS mobile platform the \n will supports fine.. message = encodeURIComponent(message) .. bur for android nothing is working for me searching for me..

answered Oct 29 '13 at 07:20

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score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Sep 14 '17 at 08:10

None of the solutions offered worked for me when trying to post a comment on Facebook using Chrome. The only solution I have found is to highlight text that has a linefeed, then paste in that text, then erase all of the paste except the linefeed.

score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Jan 22 '20 at 13:36

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In my case (in bash) newline works only with newline character $'\n', e.g.

echo "Message text"$'\n'"#kw"

answered Jan 22 '20 at 13:36

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