simple_format (ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper)

TIL: about #simple_format in #Rails.

Returns text transformed into HTML using simple formatting rules. Two or more consecutive newlines(\n\n ) are considered as a paragraph and wrapped in <p> tags. One newline (\n ) is considered as a linebreak and a <br /> tag is appended. This method does not remove the newlines from the text . You can pass any HTML attributes into html_options . These will be added to all created paragraphs. Options :sanitize - If false, does not sanitize text . Examples my_text = " Here is some basic text...\n ...with a line break. " simple_format ( my_text ) # => "<p>Here is some basic text...\n<br />...with a line break.</p>" more_text = " We want to put a paragraph...\n\n ...right there. " simple_format ( more_text ) # => "<p>We want to put a paragraph...</p>\n\n<p>...right there.</p>" simple_format (" Look ma! A class! ", :class => ' description ') # => "<p class='description'>Look ma...

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