Array html and skip line

Question

Hello,

I don't know if what I would like to do can be done.

I use this sample to illustrate

$days= "monday","tuesday","wednesday"  
$result = foreach ($a in 1..4)  
{  
    [pscustomobject]@{  
        Day = $a  
        ScheduleDay = $days -join "`r`n"  
    }  
}  
  
$result | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File "c:\test.html"  
c:\test.html  

I would like to have the result in the next picture.

But my result is this one :

Answer 1

Hi @matteu31 ,

please try this:

$days = "monday", "tuesday", "wednesday"  
$result = foreach ($a in 1..4) {  
    [pscustomobject]@{  
        Day         = $a  
        ScheduleDay = $days -join "::"  
    }  
}  
$html = $result | ConvertTo-Html  
$html.Replace('::', '<br>') | Out-File "c:\temp\test.html"  
c:\temp\test.html  

Result looks like this here:

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(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

rn has no meaning in HTML. Use <br/> instead.

Answer 3

If I do :

$days= "monday","tuesday","wednesday"  
 $result = foreach ($a in 1..4)  
 {  
     [pscustomobject]@{  
         Day = $a  
         ScheduleDay = $days -join "<br/>"  
     }  
 }  
      
 $result | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File "c:\test.html"  
 c:\test.html  

Same result...

I can see it's because <br/> is modified

Answer 4

Hello,

Thanks for your answer. It works perfectly :)

Answer 5

If you want borders around your cells you'll have to use styles. Here's an example:

# CSS table style
$h = @"
<style>
    table, th,td {
        border-width:     1px;
        border-style:     solid;
        border-color:     black;
        border-collapse:  collapse;
    }
    tr {
        text-align:       left;
    }
</style>
"@

$days = "monday", "tuesday", "wednesday"
1..4 |
    ForEach-Object {
    [pscustomobject]@{
        Day         = $_
        ScheduleDay = $days -join "!BREAK!"
    }
} | ConvertTo-Html -Head $h |
    ForEach-Object{
        $l = $_ -replace "!BREAK!",'<br/>'  # get rid of phony and replace with real break
        $l
    } |
        Out-File "c:\junk\test.html"

c:\junk\test.html