Replace ; with line feed

[Phil Grant]

Hi,
I have a field that contains multiple entries selected by checkboxes that currently display one after the other separated by “;” and I would like to display them as a list of separate items.

Is it possible to do a character replace on the “;” for a new line feed?

I have

Item1;Item2;Item3;Item4

I would like

Item1
Item2
Item3
Item4

[Alexander Bautz]

I guess this is in DispForm? – if so, you can add something like this to your Custom JS:

var raw = getFieldValue("YourFieldName");
jQuery("#dffs_YourFieldName td.ms-formbody").html(raw.split(";").join("<br>"));

Replace “YourFieldName” with your field name.

Alexander

[Phil Grant]

Thanks, I’ll give it a go, yes it is in the display form.

[Phil Grant]

Alexander,
I tried the JS but it doesn’t work, I’m guessing that it’s because of the spaces in the field name? I tried various ways of writing it including escape characters in front of the spaces, underscores instead of spaces but nothing worked.

Hopefully this is easy when you know the language, this is what I have: –

var raw = getFieldValue("Projects also affected");
jQuery("#dffs_Projects also affected td.ms-formbody").html(raw.split(";").join("<br>"));

[Alexander Bautz]

You must use the FieldInternalName – look at the Fields tab in DFFS backend to find the correct name.

Alexander

[Phil Grant]

LoL, that’s the only thing I didn’t try because you usually write FeildInternalName in the code when you want us to use it, this time I though YourFieldName specifically meant not to use the FIN.

It works now thanks.

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