LHN - Message preview doesn't treat new line as space

[isagoico]

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Expected Result:

Message preview should display a space if there is a new line in the message.

Actual Result:

Message preview doesn't treat new line as space

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to a conversation
2. Send this message

Cool
Test
Of
New line

3. Check the message preview in the LHN

Workaround:

No need, visual issue.

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

Web ✔️
iOS
Android
Desktop App
Mobile Web

Version Number: 1.0.47-0

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos:

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

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From @puneetlath https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1621222051218200

LHN doesn’t treat new line as a space. Notice how in the LHN image there is no space between “Hello!” and the sentence before it. But in the actual message, it is on its own line. We should treat that new line as a space when showing the text in the LHN.

[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @zanyrenney (AutoAssignerTriage), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4749 for more details.

[quinthar]

This might overlap with the discussion elsewhere about getting rid of the "text" version of the message stored in the reportAction, and just generating a stripped version of the HTML "on demand". During this stripping process, we can just ignore newlines.

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[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @tgolen (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[tgolen]

Looks like a good contributor issue.

[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @jliexpensify (External), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/8582 for more details.