Line break in HTML with '\n'

Question

Is there a way to make HTML properly treat \n line breaks? Or I have to replace them with <br/>?

<div class="text">
  abc
  def
  ghi
</div>

Answer 1

This is to show new line and return carriage in html, then you don't need to do it explicitly. You can do it in css by setting the white-space attribute pre-line value.

<span style="white-space: pre-line">@Model.CommentText</span>

Answer 2

You can use CSS white-space property for \n. You can also preserve the tabs as in \t.

For line break \n:

white-space: pre-line;

For line break \n and tabs \t:

white-space: pre-wrap;

document.getElementById('just-line-break').innerHTML = 'Testing 1\nTesting 2\n\tNo tab';

document.getElementById('line-break-and-tab').innerHTML = 'Testing 1\nTesting 2\n\tWith tab';

#just-line-break {
  white-space: pre-line;
}

#line-break-and-tab {
  white-space: pre-wrap;
}

<div id="just-line-break"></div>

<br/>

<div id="line-break-and-tab"></div>

Answer 3

As per your question, it can be done by various ways: - For example you can use:

If you want to insert a new line in text area , you can try this:-


 Line Feed and 
Carriage return

<textarea>Hello &#10;&#13;Stackoverflow</textarea>

You can also <pre>---</pre> Preformatted text.

<pre>
     This is Line1
     This is Line2
     This is Line3
</pre>

Or,you can use <p>----</p> Paragraph

<p>This is Line1</p>

<p>This is Line2</p>

<p>This is Line3</p>

Answer 4

You could use the <pre> tag

<div class="text">
<pre>
  abc
  def
  ghi
</pre>
  abc
  def
  ghi
</div>

Answer 5

Using white-space: pre-line allows you to input the text directly in the HTML with line breaks without having to use \n

If you use the innerText property of the element via JavaScript on a non-pre element e.g. a <div>, the \n values will be replaced with <br> in the DOM by default

• innerText: replaces \n with <br>
• innerHTML, textContent: require the use of styling white-space

It depends on how your applying the text, but there are a number of options

const node = document.createElement('div');
node.innerText = '\n Test \n One '

Answer 6

you can use <pre> tag :

<div class="text">
<pre>
abc
def
ghi
</pre>
</div>

Answer 7

Simple and linear:

 <p> my phrase is this..<br>
 the other line is this<br>
 the end is this other phrase..
 </p>