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To preserve the line break in the server-side, you need to use the wrap attribute with the hard value or insert a newline character (\n) in the text. the line break tag is a single tag and not a pair so the correct syntax is <br />, which also terminates the tag, and no longer <br> although still accepted.

If you want your text to overflow the parent's boundaries, you should use pre as your CSS whitespace property. Using white-space: pre wraps still preserves newlines and spaces. Enjoy!

White-space: This CSS property is used to set how the inner white space of the element will be handled. By setting this property to nowrap, the text inside the element will be one line only but still, there might be some overflow of text out of the element boundaries.

The <pre> tag defines preformatted text. Text in a <pre> element is displayed in a fixed-width font, and the text preserves both spaces and line breaks. The text will be displayed exactly as written in the HTML source code.

You can use white-space: pre-line to preserve line breaks in formatting. There is no need to manually insert html elements. You would want to replace all spaces with &nbsp; (non-breaking space) and all new lines \n with <br> (line break in html). This should achieve the result you're looking for.

Line break element will show a line break in the textarea element, but the value of the message parameter will be "This is a linewith a break" when the form is submitted. To preserve the line break in the server-side, you need to use the wrap attribute with the hard value or insert a newline character (\n) in the text.

You can use white-space: pre-line to preserve line breaks in formatting. There is no need to manually insert html elements. You would want to replace all spaces with &nbsp; (non-breaking space) and all new lines \n with <br> (line break in html).