Hello! I’m writing my application in QML, and inside a TextArea formatted with RichText I want to display this:
a header
(an empty line)
another header
my first thought was to go with a <br>
tag, but it has a problem: it creates 2 empty lines, don’t know why. so doing this
<h1>hello</h1>
<br>
<h2>world</h2>
produces
hello
(an empty line)
(an empty line)world
I tried using the <pre>
tag:
<pre>
</pre>
but no empty lines were displayed
the only working workaround was to use a non breaking space
, but being it a TextArea, the user is able to edit the text, and so there would be a “rogue” space instead of an empty line. How can I display just a single line break between two headers (or even paragraphs, but in my case the header is needed)?
This is such a weird fix! Good work finding it!
It isn’t weird, just sloppy: QT6 seems to be handling this specific tag incorrectly when it presents with HTML void element syntax as defined in section 8.1.2.1 of the HTML 5 standard, which specifies that the slash is allowed but optional. It’s hard to say whether this actually constitutes a QT bug without checking the documentation to see whether it really wants HTML or XHTML, since XHTML does require the slash.