django display textfields

Question

I have a form with textfields in Django, and users enter texts line by line. When I look at the entries in admin side, I saw exactly how user wrote it but when I display it on my website, in Django templates, it just joins the sentences and I couldn't display the text line by line anymore.

To illustrate, user enters text as

-bla

-bla1

-bla2

However, it looks like in my page as

-bla1-bla2-bla3

This is my code in the template:

<div>
   <p>
      {{ rev.myTextField }}
   </p>
</div>

Answer 1

In HTML, newlines between text don't imply a newline in display; you need to use HTML to insert the newline. The most straightforward way is with the <br /> tag, although there are other methods as well.

Django has a template filter for this: use |linebreaks. Here's the Documentation.

So, change:

{{ rev.myTextField }}

to:

{{ rev.myTextField|linebreaks }}

Answer 2

Try "safe" tag

{{ rev.myTextField|safe }}