displaying multiline text with markdown

[Nachsh]

I have a string that is being build on the go and should be displayed in a container.
I tried to use "\n" and "
" for making line breaks in the string but it doesn't work and the string is presented without line breaks.
what am I missing?

my code

    @rio.event.periodic(0.5)
    async def update_log_box(self) -> None:       
        # Move the pointer to the end of the file
        self.log_file.seek(self.log_file_ptr)
        while True:
            line = self.log_file.readline()
            if not line:
                self.log_file_ptr = self.log_file.tell()
                break
            self.log_content = f'{line.strip()}<br> ' + self.log_content
        await self.force_refresh()  

    

    def build(self) -> rio.Component:
        # The navbar should appear above all other components. This is easily
        # done by using a `rio.Overlay` component.
        logger = logging.getLogger("Logger")
        return rio.Overlay(
            # Use a rectangle for visual separation
                rio.Revealer(
                    header='',
                    content= 
                        rio.Card( content = rio.ScrollContainer(rio.Markdown(
                            default_language='python',
                            text=self.log_content),
                            min_height=10,
                            )),
                header_style="text",
                align_y = 1,
                margin_y = 1,
                margin_x = 5,
                ),
            
            )

[mad-moo]

Hey!

What you're seeing is just standard markdown behavior. An example should clear this up:

Linebreaks are ignored in markdown. For example, even though this text spans
two lines, it is displayed as a single one in the final output.

To force a linebreak, markdown requires you to leave a completely empty line.
Notice how due to the empty line above the text is displayed as two paragraphs.

Above text as rendered by markdown ^^^

While we're at it, another common gotcha is that indented code is rendered as code block in markdown. So if generating a string in Python, make sure you don't have a bunch of spaces at the start of it.

[mad-moo]

Didn't mean to close the discussion - feel free to close it yourself if you consider your problem resolved

[Aran-Fey]

The Markdown component doesn't allow HTML for security reasons, so <br> doesn't work.

[Nachsh]

Thanks guys, I took the "empty line" suggestions.

its not the most elegant at I am getting gaps between my lines, but it's sufficient for now.

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self.log_content = f'{line.strip()}\n\n ' + self.log_content
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