Preserving whitespace & line breaks

Rails
1

I have a text field that submits stuff to my database. When I display
this data, it no longer has line breaks, everything is just in one big
row. How can I preserve my whitespace and line breaks?

2

I have a text field that submits stuff to my database. When I display
this data, it no longer has line breaks, everything is just in one big
row. How can I preserve my whitespace and line breaks?

It won’t keep it from crunching multiple spaces into one though… if
you
really need it as is, wrap it in 

 or  or convert all the

spaces

to  …


-philip
3

Philip H. wrote:

ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper

sanitize? I’m using it now to process output text but line breaks are
still screwed.

4

Philip H. wrote:

ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper

sanitize? I’m using it now to process output text but line breaks are
still screwed.

simple_format.

Sorry, wasn’t very clear on that…

simple_format(text)
Returns text transformed into HTML using very simple formatting rules
Surrounds paragraphs with

tags, and converts line breaks into

Two consecutive newlines(\n\n) are considered as a paragraph, one
newline
(\n) is considered a linebreak, three or more consecutive newlines are
turned into two newlines