I am getting a dynamic text from DB via an API call in following format
Test 1<br>Test 2<br>Test 3
How can I break this string where there is a 'br' tag and add line breaks? I need to show the string in below format
Test 1
Test 2
Test 3
Can someone please shed some light.
UPDATE: Tried below code, space is being added instead of new line
gridData.STATUSNOTES = gridData.STATUSNOTES.replaceAll('<br>', '\n');
You can simply append the text using innerHTML like:
var content = "Test 1<br>Test 2<br>Test 3"
document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = content
<div id="result"></div>
If it doesn't work, in any case like the parent element doesn't permit, you can make use of div or any element with display property as block as block-level element always starts on a new line and always takes up the full width available. Here's an example of converting your string to be placed in new lines:
var content = "Test 1<br>Test 2<br>Test 3"
var result = "";
content.split("<br>").map(element => result += `<div>${element}</div>`)
document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = result
<div id="result"></div>
To do nothing with the HTML but just add a line break in a text, you can replace all br with \n
const content = 'Test 1<br>Test 2<br>Test 3'.replaceAll('<br>', '\n');
console.log(content);
If you are looking to use \n as a line break stuff, probably you can use a CSS style white-space: pre-line. This is a CSS way of breaking lines using \n. Hope this helps.
var content = "Test 1<br>Test 2<br>Test 3".replaceAll("<br>","\n")
document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = content
<div id="result" style="white-space: pre-line;"></div>
Just replace <br> with end-of-line code:
const str = 'Test 1<br>Test 2<br>Test 3';
const result = str.replaceAll('<br>', '\n');
console.log(result);
// Test 1
// Test 2
// Test 3