How to show multiline text in a table cell

I want to show a paragraph from database into a table cell.

The result is a large 1 line, ignoring how its organised in database. ignoring 'enters' for example (new lines)

I want to show it exactly according to how it's written in database.

For example if paragraph is saved like this:

hello ,
my name is x.

I want it to be showed exactly like that, instead of:

hello, myname is x.

You want to use the CSS white-space:pre applied to the appropriate <td>. To do this to all table cells, for example:

td { white-space:pre }

Alternatively, if you can change your markup, you can use a <pre> tag around your content. By default web browsers use their user-agent stylesheet to apply the same white-space:pre rule to this element.

The PRE element tells visual user agents that the enclosed text is "preformatted". When handling preformatted text, visual user agents:

• May leave white space intact.
• May render text with a fixed-pitch font.
• May disable automatic word wrap.
• Must not disable bidirectional processing.

style="white-space:pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word"

This would solve the issue of new line. pre tag would add additional CSS than required.

Wrap the content in a <pre> (pre-formatted text) tag

<pre>hello ,
my name is x.</pre>

Two suggestions to solving this problem:

SOLUTION 1: <div style="white-space:pre;">{database text}</div> or <pre>{database text}</pre>

This is good solution if your text has no html tags or css properties. Also allows to maintain tabs for example.

SOLUTION 2: Replace \n with <p></p> or <br/>

This is a solution if you would just like to add break-lines, without losing other text properties or formatting. An example in php would be $text = str_replace("\n","<br />",$database_text);

You can also use <p></p> or <div></div>, but this requires a bit more text parsing.