Published Jul 02 2021
In a project I was rendering the description of a job which I got through a <textarea>
field in a form, and I stored that in the database.
Now, this description was not interpreted as HTML, and when I added it to the page, the white space and line breaks were not respected by the browser.
I wanted this:
but I got this:
The solution was to add this CSS instruction:
white-space: pre-wrap;
which using Tailwind corresponds to the whitespace-pre-wrap
class.
I wrote an entire book on this topic 👇
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