I have made a request form for my work and it working as expected. I have placed some text in the text area as a hide/show for users. On the visual studio code, I see the line breaks fine but when I submit the form and the recipient gets the email all that was in the text area is all in one line instead of line break where I wanted.
Also how to kill the extra white spaces. Also have used this
Is there any fix to this?
I get this in email DC GM Groups Domain Group Access: All Folders and Drives Required Distribution List: All Emails
Tried everything I could research but doesn't seem to work
white-space: nowrap;
text-align: left;
width: 650px;<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="col-6">
<!-- style="visibility:hidden;" -->
<!-- acc means account -->
<textarea class="textarea" id="acc_GMGroup" name="acc_GMGroup" rows="10">
Domain Group Access:  All Folders and Drives Required
Distribution List:  All Emails
</textarea>
</div>To answer your first two questions
The easiest way to format like it is in the text area is to put the text between <pre>...</pre> tags
The other thing you could do is use regular expressions to switch from text to html, like
text.replace(/[\n]/g,"<br>");
text.replace(/\s\s+/g,function(part) {
return part.substring(0,1);
}));
A textarea will render whitespace as it was entered into the element so just format the whitespace by literally adding it.
<div class="col-6">
<textarea class="textarea" id="acc_GMGroup" name="acc_GMGroup" rows="10">
Domain Group Access:
All Folders and Drives Required
Distribution List:
All Emails
</textarea>
</div>So i was able to do deep research and found you can do this to make it work: just add nl2br
$usersGMGroup = nl2br($_POST["acc_GMGroup"]);
Thank you to all the people that helped to resolve the issue