# Erb question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/erb-question/69977>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 26, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/erb-question/69977 "2006-09-26T02:10:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Haofei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a4c791/32.png) [@Haofei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Haofei)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/erb-question/69977/1 "2006-09-26T02:10:17Z")

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\<%=“ab\r\ncd\r\nef”%\> #this is the code

what i want is

ab  
cd  
ef

but the code above just give me

ab cd ef

is there any method i can turn the string into html code? thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![Haofei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a4c791/32.png) [@Haofei](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Haofei)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/erb-question/69977/2 "2006-09-26T03:06:18Z")

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Haofei wrote:

> ab cd ef
> 
> is there any method i can turn the string into html code? thanks 🙂

\<%=“ab  
cd  
ef”%\>