Keep line breaks when printing custom plain text textarea field

Question

I'm using Drupal 7. I'm printing out a custom plain text textarea field in the node template using the following code:

print ($taxonomy_term->field_address['und'][0]['value']);

However, when I print it out I lose all the line breaks. Is there a way I can keep the line breaks in when I print out the field value?

I have already changed the plain text format to add "limit allowed HTML tags" rule for <a> <br> <p>, and removed the "display any HTML as plain text" rule.

Many thanks,

Ben

Answer 1

I worked it out. I just needed to use the following code:

print nl2br($taxonomy_term->field_address['und'][0]['value']);

This uses the print nl2br function to convert line breaks to <br> tags.