In a project I was rendering the description of a job which I got through a <textarea> field in a form, and I stored that in the database.

Now, this description was not interpreted as HTML, and when I added it to the page, the white space and line breaks were not respected by the browser.

I wanted this:

but I got this:

The solution was to add this CSS instruction:

white-space: pre-wrap;

which using Tailwind corresponds to the whitespace-pre-wrap class.

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	▶︎ Preserving white space and line breaks in a string in HTML
2:	HTML, avoid displaying a broken image if the image is not found
3:	The HTML figure tag
4:	Change image source in dark mode
5:	Accept only images in file input
6:	HTML comments
7:	Some useful tricks available in HTML5
8:	How to make an hr invisible
9:	Conditionally set an HTML attribute
10:	An HTML element id is a global variable