Google Map markers text not formated properly in FireFox

Question

I'm using the Blueprints Ajax Map Viewer component to add a Google Map to one of my pages. This is too cool! It really makes using Google Maps easy.
However I have a display problem in FireFox. The map has MapMarkers with markup. When you click on a marker the Info Window "balloon" is displayed with the markup text. In IE, the Info Window is nicely wrapped. However, in FireFox, the text is displayed one word per line. So in IE it looks like:
    My Marker
    Description of my marker.But, in FireFox
    My
    Marker
    Description
    of
    my
    marker.Here's an actual example of the "markup."
<b>Downtown Danville</b><p>Parking. Water. Restroom (in Caboose!). Museum.</p>I suspect it is a style problem, but don't know where to start to troubleshoot. Do I have to dig into the Themes? Any Ideas?
Cheers
Dan

Answer 1

Thank you for bringing this to the forum. One of our developers suggests replacing all spaces with non-breaking spaces ( ) and provides the following code associated with the component catalog found at http://developers.sun.com/ajax/componentscatalog.jsp:
public String button1_action() {
String userLocation = (String)this.selectValue1.getValue();
if (userLocation != null) {
GeoPoint userPoint = (GeoPoint)getSessionBean1().getGeoPoints().get(userLocation);
if (userPoint != null) {
double latitude = userPoint.getLatitude();
double longitude = userPoint.getLongitude();
this.mapViewer1_center.setLatitude(latitude);
this.mapViewer1_center.setLongitude(longitude);
renderMapViewer = true;
String m = formatMarker(userPoint.toString());
MapMarker marker = new MapMarker(latitude, longitude, m);
this.mapViewer1.setMarkers( new MapMarker[] {marker} );
//this.mapViewer1.setInfo(marker);
} return null;
private String formatMarker(String text) {
text = "<b>" + text + "</b>";
text = "Location shown: <br/>" + text;
text = text.replaceAll(" ", " ");
return text;
Our tutorial will also be updated shortly. I hope this helps.
~Joe Silber
Java Studio Creator Documentation