Replace semicolon delimiter in a Lookup column on the list view

Question

When selecting multiple values, the data is separated with semicolons. When many values are selected it starts looking cluttered.

Is there any way to have each value on a new line?

For example, instead of:

Image1;Image2;Image3

I would like:

Image1
Image2
Image3

I'm using a lookup column inside a picture library. When looking at it within SPD it renders as a webpartpages:ListFormWebPart.

Is there any way of accomplishing this with Javascript?

Answer 1

I had a similar item come across my dest a few days ago. Using javascript and jquery. The code replaces the html coding of a semicolon with a html line break. It then copies the code and replaces the orginal code with it.

$(document).ready(function(){
  $(".ms-vb:contains(';')").each(function(){
    var htmlstr = $(this).html();
    var htmlmod = htmlstr.replace(/; <A/g,"</br><A");
    $(this).html(htmlmod);
  });
});

Answer 2

I think Spservice and multiple choice filed values will help you to work around this problem.

Answer 3

You might be able to use an article by Dessie Lunsford to create a calculated column to search and replace the semi colon with a space. This one might be helpful too.

Answer 4

I ran into the same problem as the OP and found @JBlountJr answer to work fine except on our users with IE11. This code was able to do the trick in all our browsers. Hopefully this helps someone.

Note: I modified the DispForm.aspx page and gave the the lookup column an Id. Edit: Previous code actually did a few funky things to the URL's.

 $("#myId").contents().filter(function() {
    if (this.nodeType === 3){
        $(this).before('<br>'); 
        $(this).remove();
    }
 });

or

$("#myId").contents().filter(function() {
    if (this.nodeType === 3){ 
        $(this).replaceWith('<br>');
    }
});