1.0.1 • Published 4 years ago
replace-new-lines v1.0.1
Replace New Lines
Motivation
When text from textarea
are stored into DB, retrieved, and put into html
, new line symbols does't make new line. Instead, they only make a space, which largely affect the readability. Want to tranform these text into paragraphs.
Solutions
Two solutions are <br>
and <p></p>
.
Replace new line symbols \n
or \r\n
with <br>
or transform them into paragraphs.
Functions
There are three functions.
breakWithBreak
: Transform text string with \r\n
\n
line breaks into strings with breaks, replace \r\n
and \n
with <br>
split
: split text string by \r\n
or \n
into a list of strings
toParagraph
: Transform text string containing \r\n
or \n
to a string of many paragraphs, separated with <p></p>