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Stef Rouschop · 2022-05-28T10:13:11.751Z

The problem I recently got a question from a client about disappearing line breaks. It was a valid question since the text came from a textarea input that was echoed out on a page. The type of content was really simple and had no need for markup, so ...

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Mark Snape

Jun 3, 2022

I try to use CSS, but failing that, my preferred pattern is

{!! nl2br(e($description)) !!}

the e() function escapes the content, then you convert the newlines and finally, safely echo the raw content

Said Bakr

May 28, 2022

The blade component implementation is new for me. I have used to Blade Service Provider in Laravel 5.4. What is the version of Laravel that started such theses components?

Stef Rouschop

May 28, 2022

I’m not sure, but I think they were introduced in Laravel 7.

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