Storing TextArea data with line breaks in database and displaying in same format with line breaks

Question

I have a JSP page with a textarea HTML component. When a user presses enter and goes to next line while typing in textarea,and when he clicks save button, it saves the data from

Answer 1

The replaceAll method return a new String. Your variable a is never modified.

To solve your problem : a = a.replaceAll("\n","<br />");

In this kind of method, reading the javadoc is time saver.

Regards.