Newbie Questions

Re: Content Place Holder Text

Skarn — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:07:53 GMT

This might be a bit of an 'out there' idea.
Set the width of the text box, then in the Placeholder option instead of carriage returns you can space out your words to 'pad' then to the next line.

Now, Spaces won't work, Infopath just removes all of them leaving only one. So try holding ALT and typing 255 on your NUMBER PAD (must be the number pad) and a let go of ALT.
A 'Space' will appear in the Placeholder box except Infopath won't remove these ones. Just do a few of them, and then copy and paste them as needed.

Someone may have a better ALT code to use, but 255 is the first one that worked as I wanted.

This seems to have the desired affect, but is a bit fiddly.
The reason for setting the width first is clear, because if the width is changed, then you'll need to readjust all the spaces.

Good luck.

Re: Content Place Holder Text

Anson Hidajat — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:06:40 GMT

Unfortunately I don't believe there is an easy way to have placeholder text have line breaks in InfoPath.

Have you considered using a task help pane, a show/hide section to include help text, or a tooltip?

Content Place Holder Text

Test123 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:11:30 GMT

I need a quick help on this, i have to place multiple line's of text in content place holder of a text box, it is only accepting without any line breaks, is it possible to enter text with line breaks in a content place holder.