The formatting is saved automatically (they are just newlines). 

I am assuming that you want to send an html email with the newlines converted to <br /> tags. In that case you should use the "Send xslt transformed email" workflow item and create an XSLT extension that can convert the newlines to <br /> tags. XSLT extensions are usable in contour as well, here's mine:

    public class Strings
    {
        public static string ReplaceNewLinesWithHtmlBreak(string text)
        {
            return text.Replace("\n", "<br />");
        }
     }

Hmm. I'm making a comment function. The comment is the text typed in the textarea, which I want to be displayed with the right formatting.

I tryed to replace \n with <br /> but there aren't any \n in the entity saved from the form. 

Hi Henrik

The \n entities are not visible but occur everytime you make a new line using enter.

So are you saying that there is not <br /> in your HTML code after the replace has been made?

/Jan

Must be a problem with you replace function, there's definitely newlines in the save forms. Just click on the edit button for a form entry and see the text in the textarea still has the proper line breaks in there.

Yes thats right. And i hit enter many times when I made the comment

I tryed to replace all the 'g' instead to see if the worked. When I do that all the g's gets replaced with <br /> but it doesn't work as an html tag, it is just shown as text.

Ah, you need to disable output escaping:

<xsl:value-of select="someField" disable-output-escaping="yes" />

Thanks <br /> tag works now when I replace with 'g' but nothing happens when I try to replace with "\n"

This is what I do. I didn't make my own replace function.

      <xsl:variable name="sss" select=".//fields/indlæg//value"/>
      <p>
        <xsl:value-of select="Exslt.ExsltStrings:replace($sss, '\n', '&lt;br />')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

Just figured out that you should be able to do it quite easily like so:

<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:ReplaceLineBreaks($sss)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

Thank you :) It works

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