Does handlebars.js replace newline characters with ?

Question

Trying to use handlebars.js for templating but the library seems to ignore newlines.

What is the correct way to deal with newlines? Should they be replaced manually

Answer 1

I've used the code posted by @Uri and it was very useful.

But I realised that when I register the helper, the function parameter that it receives is not the text, but the function that is called inside the Handlebars template. So first I had to call it to get the text.

In order to clarify, I had to do:

Handlebars.registerHelper('breaklines', function(descriptionFunction) {
    text = descriptionFunction();
    text = Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression(text);
    text = text.toString();
    text = text.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, '
');
    return new Handlebars.SafeString(text);
});

This is the only way I could make it work.