From 1ec08dec729c799cccb6290e6afb507ba2740285 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artur Signell <artur.signell@itmill.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:40:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] #7478 Util.escapeHtml incorrectly converts newline to <br>
 and space to "&nbsp;" in IE6-IE8

svn changeset:20662/svn branch:6.7
---
 src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/client/Util.java | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/client/Util.java b/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/client/Util.java
index 7edad795fe..9d2f1d3968 100644
--- a/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/client/Util.java
+++ b/src/com/vaadin/terminal/gwt/client/Util.java
@@ -248,7 +248,14 @@ public class Util {
      */
     public static String escapeHTML(String html) {
         DOM.setInnerText(escapeHtmlHelper, html);
-        return DOM.getInnerHTML(escapeHtmlHelper);
+        String escapedText = DOM.getInnerHTML(escapeHtmlHelper);
+        if (BrowserInfo.get().isIE() && BrowserInfo.get().getIEVersion() < 9) {
+            // #7478 IE6-IE8 "incorrectly" returns "<br>" for newlines set using
+            // setInnerText. The same for " " which is converted to "&nbsp;"
+            escapedText = escapedText.replaceAll("<(BR|br)>", "\n");
+            escapedText = escapedText.replaceAll("&nbsp;", " ");
+        }
+        return escapedText;
     }
 
     /**
-- 
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