Transmitting newline character "\n"

Question

Given the following URL (working, try it!)

https://select-test.wp3.rbsworldpay.com/wcc/purchase?instId=151711&cartId=28524&currency=GBP&amount=1401.49&testMode=100&name=Tom%20Gul&address=24%20House%20Road\nSome Place\nCounty&postcode=TR33%20999&email=email@mail.com&country=GB

If you click on the link and go through to the payment page, the address in the address box is not displaying properly, the newline characters are displaying as text.

I've tried passing through <br />'s but no luck, anyone got any ideas? I need to get the address to display with newlines.

Commas are OK as a separator but i would much prefer being able to have newlines. Thanks for any help! A working example will be the accepted answer.

is there any function which encode html entities in this way ? — Affan, May 02 '18 at 05:52

score 373 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '10 at 11:00

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Try using %0A in the URL, just like you've used %20 instead of the space character.

answered Oct 06 '10 at 11:00

rhino

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@enumiro Can you tell me how to send character ' i.e. single quotes – Anish Kumar May 19 '17 at 07:21
To send the single Quote char just use: %27 – LaborEtArs Jun 14 '17 at 04:27
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`%0A` for newline `\n` ` ; and `%0D` for carriage return `\r` – sergiol Oct 11 '17 at 16:55
Here is the list of Encoding Reference characters: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP – Anil Singh Feb 19 '20 at 10:44

score 50 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 06 '10 at 11:00

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Try to replace the \n with %0A just like you have spaces replaced with %20.

answered Oct 06 '10 at 11:00

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score 25 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 06 '10 at 11:00

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Use %0A (URL encoding) instead of \n (C encoding).

answered Oct 06 '10 at 11:00

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score 17 · Answer 4 · answered May 17 '17 at 19:20

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late to the party, but if anyone comes across this, javascript has a encodeURI method

answered May 17 '17 at 19:20

marisbest2

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FYI: `encodeURI('\n')` returns `%0A` (tested on Google Chrome v89.0.4389.114) – shuuji3 Apr 13 '21 at 12:12

Transmitting newline character "\n"

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