Spaces around spring:message

Question

In my spring app, I am using a properties file for strings, and the spring:message tag. I am having trouble putting spaces between the messages though. Here is an example:

<p>
    <spring:message code="msg.message1" /> <spring:message code="msg.message2" />
</p>

Turns into this:

I am message1.I am message 2.

I would think that the whitespace I put between the message tags would create a space, but it doesnt. I know I can use &nbsp, but I don't want that all over my markup. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try a span element. for example

<span class="message"><spring:message code="msg.message1"/></span>
<span class="message"><spring:message code="msg.message2"/></span>

then if you don't get the spacing you want, add a .message (or span.message) class that provides the desired spacing. If you get the spacing you want without adding a class, remove class="message" from the spans.

you could use a  , but my personal preference is to avoid such things (or forever they will dominate your destiny :) )

Answer 2

This has nothing to do with Spring. Neither of the two taglibs has control over the output stream when space in between is printed. I can just speculate on two things:

• Is a refresh problem. They are not very usual, but sometimes you have to be sure you have cleaned your project, deleted Tomcat's work directory and so on.

• JSP is configured to trim spaces. This is not the default behavior and it can be configured in a few ways, as you can see here.

Answer 3

Try by adding   in your properties file at the end of message value

eg.

msg.message1 = I am message1.   

Answer 4

Put the messages into <div> elements?

Use CSS to position them relatively to one another with some border/margin?

Answer 5

If you literally want a space between the messages, you will need  .