How to add a line break in a string, this is some Drupal function

Question

I want a line break in the #attributes, I've mentioned it in the code as in where I want the line break to be.

$form['advanced_user_data'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textarea',
    '#attributes' => array('placeholder' => array('"Jack Polard" <jackpolard@xyz.com> (Want a   line break here) "Miky Town" <miky@abc.com> (Want a line break here) "Bill Gates" <bill@example.com>')),
    '#description' => t('Eg: "Full Name" &nbsp;&nbsp; < emailid@domain.com >'),                                                       
);

See this is how it has to be, "\r\n" didnt work, I'm a HTML guy, so I have no knowledge of PHP, please help me in a simpler way.

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possible duplicate of [PHP Echo Line Breaks](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/255511/php-echo-line-breaks) — l'L'l, Jul 24 '14 at 06:45

ins0 · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-24T07:00:34.780

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i think your linebreaks should used in a textarea use 
 this is command for newlines in html. give this a try.

// edit after comment

try

'#attributes' => array('placeholder' => array('"Jack Polard" <jackpolard@xyz.com>
                                                "Miky Town" <miky@abc.com>
                                                "Bill Gates" <bill@example.com>')),

if this and the other solutions ... \n etc... not work, i think the output to your textarea gets htmlescaped, so you can't use linebreaks as long the complete output gets escaped.

edited Jul 24 '14 at 07:00

answered Jul 24 '14 at 06:53

ins0

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I can give spaces, I've tried, but the textarea is responsive, then the words break when resized. – Awesomestvi Jul 24 '14 at 07:01
then i think you need to correct the output and remove the ``htmlescape`` from the ``textarea`` – ins0 Jul 24 '14 at 07:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 24 '14 at 06:53

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Most of the time \n or \r\n or PHP_EOL will do the trick. Just try which one works for you. If you echo to html you should use <br>.

edited Jul 24 '14 at 06:53

three_pineapples

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answered Jul 24 '14 at 06:44

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not my downvote but better to use ``PHP_EOL`` in php – ins0 Jul 24 '14 at 06:49
Edited it to complete the answer for future reference. – tkon99 Jul 24 '14 at 06:51
It does work when saving text files. I don't know the context in which you are using this. – tkon99 Jul 24 '14 at 06:53

How to add a line break in a string, this is some Drupal function

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