cr-lf missing from my product descriptions

[freegeek]

As the topic title says, all of my product descriptions in my store are shown as plain test without any new lines being inserted where I want them. Is there any way to overcome this problem?

 

Thanks

[peter222]

<br> ?

[freegeek]

<br> ?

 

ohh do you need to insert html formatting?

[peter222]

yes, or install TinyMCE or something like that ;)

[freegeek]

Thanks Peter!

[MrPhil]

If you simply output (in HTML) a bunch of lines, the browser will glue them together into one long paragraph.

This is line 1.

This is line 2.

This is line 3.

becomes

This is line 1. This is line 2. This is line 3.

You need to explicitly tell the browser where to break the text, either with <br> or with <p>...</p> tags. Be careful to check whether the code lets HTML tags through unscathed, or mangles them to displayable form (e.g., <br>).