Display textfield with line breaks in Flask

Question

I have a form with textfields in Flask, and users enter texts line by line. When I look at the DB the enties are stored with line breaks but when I display it on my website, in Flask templates, it just joins the sentences and I couldn't display the text line by line anymore.

To illustrate, user enters text as

1

2

3

However, it looks like in my page as:

1 2 3

This is my code in the template:

{{ vroute.comments }}

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '16 at 12:26

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Try

<pre>{{ vroute.comments }}</pre>

HTML collapses whitespace unless you indicate otherwise.

answered Feb 28 '16 at 12:26

Jasmijn

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Gold!!! Works thank you (would have added a + score, just my reputation is too low) – Bassie Feb 28 '16 at 12:29
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Since my answer helped you, please click the check mark next to it to mark it as accepted. :) – Jasmijn Feb 28 '16 at 12:37
Thank you! Great question and great answer. – Ambassador Kosh Apr 14 '21 at 20:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '23 at 19:37

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please add:

style="white-space: pre-line"

to your html tag, for example

<span style="white-space: pre-line"> {{ vroute.commnets}}</span>

answered Feb 10 '23 at 19:37

Vahid Rafael

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Display textfield with line breaks in Flask

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