Preserve line breaks in angularjs

Based on @pilau s answer - but with an improvement that even the accepted answer does not have.

<div class="angular-with-newlines" ng-repeat="item in items">   {{item.description}}</div>/* in the css file or in a style block */.angular-with-newlines {    white-space: pre-line;}

This will use newlines and whitespace as given, but also break content at the content boundaries. More information about the white-space property can be found here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space

If you want to break on newlines, but also not collapse multiple spaces or white space preceeding the text (to render code or something), you can use:

white-space: pre-wrap;

Nice comparison of the different rendering modes: http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/white-space.html

Try:

<div ng-repeat="item in items">  <pre>{{item.description}}</pre></div>

The <pre> wrapper will print text with \n as text

also if you print the json, for better look use json filter, like:

<div ng-repeat="item in items">  <pre>{{item.description|json}}</pre></div>

Demo

I agree with @Paul Weber that white-space: pre-wrap; is better approach, anyways using <pre> - the quick way mostly for debug some stuff (if you don't want to waste time on styling)

It's so simple with CSS (it works, I swear).

.angular-with-newlines {  white-space: pre;}

• Look ma! No extra HTML tags!