InfoPath Q&A: How do I add a carriage return to the Default Value of a Rich Text Box?

Jim wrote:

Is there a way to add a carriage return in a rich text box’s default value? I have had success with a normal text box using an XML file that contains UTF-8 CR and LF characters, but at this point I have not found a way to add either to in a Rich Text Box.

Hi Jim,

As far as I know, you cannot do this without writing code. The way to add a carriage return to a Rich Text Box is by programmatically adding a <div> element to the InnerXml property of the XML node that represents the Rich Text Box. I wrote some code for this in this forum thread.

To set the Default Value of the field, you would have to write code in an event handler. You’ve got the choice of using the loading event of the form (this would set the value when the form is opened for the first time) or – like I wrote yesterday – the changed event of a row in a repeating table (this would set the value when a repeating table row is inserted).

Update (14 Dec 2008): Also take a look at the following articles:

• How to get HTML tags to appear as HTML and not as plain text in a Rich Text Box
• How to programmatically get or set the XHTML code of a Rich Text field in InfoPath 2007
• Programmatically add lines of text to a Rich Text Box field on an InfoPath form using C# code

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