Question

I have HTML data stored in database which I wish to display as is. It keeps converting
tags to <br /> which is a behavior I do not want. I have tried playing with javascript replace and still I am unable to convert it to regular HTML.

    var venueaddress = msg.result[0].venueaddress;
    var venueaddress2 = venueaddress.replace("[newline]", "<br />");

                alert(venueaddress2); //shows <br />


$("#venueaddress").text(venueaddress2); //lets now display it on the browser

<li><h3>Venue Address</h3><p><strong> <span id="venueaddress"></span> </strong></p></li>

However when it renders on browser, it has the <br /> and there fore there is no line break.

Answer 1

Your problem is with

$("#venueaddress").text(venueaddress2);

you should use

$("#venueaddress").html(venueaddress2);

Text will encode any html character and will display it in span as encoded, html will not.