Question

I want to break my string using javascript which is fetching some data from a php file using ajax. The php is returning the correct data, however the javascript doesn’t treat a <br> tag properly. This is my ajax code and i am using it to replace the current text in that span.

type: "post", url: "some_php.php", data: "name="+name,
    success: function(data) {
      $('#someDiv').text(data);
    }

Using console.log(data) i get the output as:

Some<br>Address<br>to<br>be<br>borken

No i want it to output as

Some
Address
to
be
broken

Answer 1

Use .html().

 $('#someDiv').html(data);