How do I put preformatted text into a FitNesse fixture table cell?

Question

I want to be able to put preformatted text (i.e. containing line breaks) into a single cell of a FitNesse fixture table. Is there a way to manipulate the FitNesse wiki markup to do this?

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '09 at 21:18

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Use !- -! to get multiline table cells and {{{ }}} to get preformatted text. The {{{ has to be outside the !-

For example:

|sql|
|{{{!- SELECT *
     FROM bar
     WHERE gaz = 14
-!}}}|

answered Feb 25 '09 at 21:18

Johannes Brodwall

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Thanks. Note that the `{{{ … }}}` inserts `
```
 … 
```
`. This may not be what you want. I saw using setHeader / setHeaders in RestFixture. `!- … -!` was what was needed.
– ctrl-alt-delor Jan 17 '14 at 09:35
This doesn't seem to work with FitNesse release 20130530; the cell value isn't formatted and and the curly brackets appear in the rendered page. – Kenny Evitt Sep 04 '14 at 13:12
This doesn't work if you want variable substitution within the formatted text! – Markus L Jun 22 '16 at 11:06

Matthew Murdoch · Answer 2 · 2009-02-26T12:18:29.000

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One way to do this is to define a variable with the multi-line text and then refer to this from the table cell:

!define sql {  SELECT *
  FROM bar
  WHERE gaz = 14
}

|sql|
|${sql}|

edited Feb 26 '09 at 12:18

answered Oct 25 '08 at 10:31

Matthew Murdoch

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Hmmm... It seems to work. However I prefer your approach - I'll give it a try. Thanks. – Matthew Murdoch Feb 26 '09 at 12:15

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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richard's comment on Johannes Brodwall's answer worked for me, i.e. you don't need the "formatted 'as is'" line/block markup, just the "'as-is'/escaping" character formatting so the following is sufficient if you don't need or want the pre-formatted style too:

|sql|
|!-Some text
that spans
multiple lines.
-!|

edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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answered Aug 29 '14 at 15:57

Kenny Evitt

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 30 '14 at 12:06

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This way allows you to keep a table row on the same line in your source code :

| col1 | col2 |
| !- col1 cell <br /> with line break -! | col2 cell without line break |

answered Sep 30 '14 at 12:06

Michael Técourt

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 08 '20 at 15:27

The way that ended up working best for me was using a couple of the solutions listed above together. Defining a variable and using the !- -!

define myVarWithLineBreaks {!-This is my
text with line
breaks-!}

|col                   |col2       |
|${myVarWithLineBreaks}|other value|

How do I put preformatted text into a FitNesse fixture table cell?

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