Display text in new line textarea in MVC razor

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i have a textarea in my mvc application when the user save it for example
hi
how are
you

but when user want to edit that textarea it shows hi how are you

but i want in that way
hi
how are
you

What I have tried:

@Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.Notes, new { @class = "form-control", placeholder = "Name", required = "required", @rows = 5 })

Posted 28-Sep-16 22:51pm

Rakib Ahmed

Updated 29-Sep-16 4:40am

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F-ES Sitecore 29-Sep-16 5:40am

The line breaks are getting stripped somewhere. Check they are present in the data store you put the text in, then check they're in the data you're showing in your view. It might also be an encoding issue...but ultimately we can't access your system so it's impossible to tell.

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David_Wimbley · Answer 1 · 2016-09-29T04:40:00

This solution worked for me as I had similar issue.

In your controller, when saving the note you would do something like

C#

entity.Note = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(model.Note.Replace(Environment.NewLine, "<br>"));

Then when displaying in your view you could do something like

HTML

<textarea name="Note"><br mode="hold">@(new HtmlString(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode((note.Note1))))<br mode="hold"></textarea>

That should work, I did not compile this/pull this from existing code so you may have to tweak it to meet your needs. But it should hopefully steer you in the right direction.