Description entered in the form (textarea) gets wrapped

[sachin pachpute]

In my spring, JSP based application, user is entering free from description in the text area. But when data is saved and displayed on the next (read only) page, entire text is wrapped in to single para. I want whole text to be saved as user enters it along with line spaces, newlines, tabs etc.

eg is as below.

below entered description when saved will get wrapped in to a single para and will not be dispayed as it looks below.I have posted this question on other forums and also tried finding solution online so please help.


Books in the stack are

Spring
Hibernate
jQuery
mySQL

[Eric Pascarello]

Either use a pre tag

Or you need to convert the new lines and extra spaces to <br/> and &nbsp;