Question

I need to display a string containing \n using Jade and I want to convert those characters in <br>. I tried to do that in two ways:

- var s = 'text\nand\ntext';
p= string
p= string.replace(/\n/g, '<br />')

But in the first case I can’t see spaces and with the second paragraph the HTML is escaped.

Answer 1

I solved it liked this:

- var text = '<script></script>\nhi';
p!= text.replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, '&gt;').replace(/\n/g, '<br />')

It doesn’t escape html special characters but since I’m using <meta charset="utf-8"> it shouldn’t be a problem.