I am loading data from a database. The textual data has line breaks \n as uploaded by the user, I would like to print this data on a html page. However line breaks do not occur. I have tried replacing \n with <br>, but that prints with <br> as part of the string instead of actually breaking the line.
How I replace
value['description'].replace('\n', '<br>')
How it appears:
I have realized mine is a framework specific issue as guided by @Demian Wolf's comment, my html markup was getting escaped. Since I am using django framework, adding a safe call in was the solution.
{{ value.description | safe }}
You can use the linebreaksbr templatetag
{{ value|linebreaksbr }}
or in your view
from django.template.defaultfilters import linebreaksbr
linebreaksbr(value['description'])