I have a model with an attribute,
desc = models.TextField() I entered data using admin interface provided by Django and then later viewed my template where the database values are fetched and displayed.
In my admin interface I left newline (just by leaving blank lines in between my paragraphs) but they are displayed as a single paragraph in my template.
I'm using Django 1.3 and MySQL.
Replaces line breaks in plain text with appropriate HTML; a single newline becomes an HTML line break (
<br />) and a new line followed by a blank line becomes a paragraph break (</p>).For example:
{{ value|linebreaks }}
\n for javascript, input values, or emails?
Just a note, I was having a similar problem with newlines not showing up and I realized that when a TextField is declared as readonly, the text is wrapped with HTML paragraph tags:
<p> text </p> as opposed to pre tags:
<pre> text </pre> Pre tags preserve new line spaces, so if you do NOT make the field readonly, you will see the linespaces.
John, looks like you got a great answer from Ignacio. I just wanted to point out the steps that I took to use Ignacio's answer for those who may be confused (like I was). Inside my template where I display the text field I added the "|linebreaks" behind the template field name (in my case a "job.desc"):
<ul> {% for job in varDataObject %} <li> <h4> <a href="#" onclick='funPath("Job", {{ job.id }})'>{{ job.title }} </a> </h4> Description: {{ job.desc|linebreaks }} 
Saving text with newline (not \n) in your model's TextField() using sql:
update event set description='xyz asdasd oaisjd ' where id=1; In Django template:
{{ object.description|linebreaks }} 