A problem of ignoring newline in textarea

Rails
1

I use text_area_tag in a view page and when its action get its value by
params[:id], all the newline will be removed. How can I keep the format
of textarea?

2

You should not try that because the text area is designed to wrap text
automatically - there really are not new line characters in the text
area, unless you manually inserted them. In that case, they should
remain.

3

srj wrote:

You should not try that because the text area is designed to wrap text
automatically - there really are not new line characters in the text
area, unless you manually inserted them. In that case, they should
remain.

I have input “\n” at each line of the text, but it doesn’t work.

4

simple_format(your_text_here)

Ryan B.
Freelancer

5

Ryan B. wrote:

simple_format(your_text_here)

Ryan B.
Freelancer
http://frozenplague.net

In this way, I have to write \n in the textarea which is not a good user
interface. How can I do some background job to replace the textarea
before it is submitted?

6

Ryan B. wrote:

no, you don’t have to write the \n.

When people type new lines it automatically puts in the \n, or in some
cases a \r\n.

This means simple_format will work.

Ryan B.
Freelancer
http://frozenplague.net

thanks it works.

7

no, you don’t have to write the \n.

When people type new lines it automatically puts in the \n, or in some
cases a \r\n.

This means simple_format will work.

Ryan B.
Freelancer