newlines in text_area

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Hi @ all I would like to enter a text with a text_area into the database. It runs excellent. But when I want to show the entered text in the show view, all newlines (paragraphs) are deleted and the text is only one block.

How can I save the returns (newlines) too?

Thanks for helping!!

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K. R. :

I would like to enter a text with a text_area into the database. It runs excellent. But when I want to show the entered text in the show view, all newlines (paragraphs) are deleted and the text is only one block.

How can I save the returns (newlines) too?

simple_format helper can be useful : http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M001057

   -- Jean-François.

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Gives it other solutions to display the text in the originally format with paragraphs and so on...?

Jean-François Trân wrote:

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simple_format does that.

Alternatively:

<%= @string.gsub(“\n”,“
”) %>

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great, thanks for helping @ all!