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Line Breaks in Textarea Fields
Textarea fields store data in the database as newlines. When displaying submission data in email notifications or on the front end with a Submissions query, the newlines will not be respected and render as a single clump of text with Twig.
Instructions
To get textarea fields to display correctly with the line breaks, you can use the nl2br Twig filter:
{{ myFieldHandle|nl2br }}
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{{ submission[field.handle]|nl2br }}
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Email Notifications
How this may look when displaying submission data in an email notification template when iterating through all fields:
<p>Submitted on: {{ dateCreated|date('l, F j, Y \\a\\t g:ia') }}</p>
<ul>
{% for field in allFields %}
{% if field.type == "textarea" %}
{{ field.value|nl2br }}
{% else %}
<li>{{ field.label }}: {{ field.valueAsString }}</li>
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</ul>
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Submissions on Front End
How this may look when displaying submission data for a single submission on the front end (assuming the ID is in 3rd segment) when iterating through all fields:
{% set submissionId = craft.app.request.segment(3) %}
{% set submission = craft.freeform.submissions({id: submissionId}).one() %}
{% if submission %}
<h3>{{ submission.title }}</h3>
<table class="table table-striped">
{% for field in submission %}
<tr>
<th>{{ field.label ? field.label : "no-label" }}</th>
<td>
{% if field.type == "textarea" %}
{{ submission[field.handle]|nl2br }}
{% else %}
{{ submission[field.handle] }}
{% endif %}
</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
{% endif %}
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