https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/preserving-newlines-in-a-field-populated-pre-submission Gravity Support Forums Topic: Preserving newlines in a field populated pre-submission. en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:25:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/preserving-newlines-in-a-field-populated-pre-submission#post-243064 Wed, 08 May 2013 16:41:50 +0000 David Peralty 243064@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>So you've figured this out? Let us know. All my best! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/preserving-newlines-in-a-field-populated-pre-submission#post-242862 Wed, 08 May 2013 12:58:30 +0000 mcarnevale 242862@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hey guys, </p> <p>I have a form field (hidden) that is being populated with the formatted contents of a cookie using the gform_pre_submission_filter.</p> <p>It has a collection of items, each with a subset of configurations. The issue I'm having is that I can't figure out how to keep any sort of line breaks in the data.</p> <p>I've tried html, it's stripped out. I've tried \n - the backslash is pulled and there's just n's listed in the data.</p> <p>Is there any way to either : insert HTML or newline characters that are preserved in the entries / emails? I assume that it's a security issue blocking these, but since it's being completely build in PHP on the back end, can I at least disable the stripslashes / remove html that's being triggered on this field?</p> <p>EDIT: I've solved this myself, due to a bit of forgotten php weirdness.</p> <p>'\n' is not "\n", as single quotes don't parse contents. Using doubles worked fine. </p>