Sometimes, we want to convert \n to HTML line breaks.
In this article, we’ll look at how to convert \n to HTML line breaks.
How to convert \n to HTML line breaks?
To convert \n to HTML line breaks, we can set the white-space CSS property to pre-line.
For instance, we write:
<span style="white-space: pre-line"></span>
to add a span with the white-space CSS property set to pre-line.
Then we write:
const span = document.querySelector('span')
span.textContent = 'foo \n bar'
We select the span with document.querySelector.
And then we set the textContent of the span to 'foo \n bar' to set that as the content of the span.
Now we should see:
foo
bar
displayed on the screen.
Conclusion
To convert \n to HTML line breaks, we can set the white-space CSS property to pre-line.
