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laravel blade textarea HTML

I'm working on a project and hit a roadblock. I've hit a wall trying to I'm working on a project and hit a roadblock. I'm stuck on something that should probably be simple. I'm working with a question with a `<textarea>` element in my Laravel Blade template. After submitting a form, the text entered into the `<textarea>` is displayed back to the user, but all line breaks are lost. I'm using Laravel 8 and the following Blade code: ```blade <form method="POST" action="/submit"> @csrf <textarea name="message" rows="5" cols="30">{{ old('message') }}</textarea> <button type="submit">Submit</button> </form> ``` When I check the submitted data on the server-side, it retains the line breaks correctly, but when I display it using: ```blade echo nl2br(e($message)); ``` it seems that the line breaks are not rendering as expected in the HTML. Instead, they are appearing as a single line in the output. I tried using `nl2br` to convert the newline characters to `<br>` elements, but I'm still seeing a single line output. Additionally, I verified that the data being submitted and received in the controller is indeed correct. I also checked that I'm not accidentally stripping out HTML tags anywhere in my processing logic. Here's the exact behavior I'm working with in the browser: ``` Your message: This is a test message that should appear on multiple lines but does not. ``` My main concern is ensuring that user-entered line breaks are preserved when displaying the text back. What am I missing here, or how can I properly render the line breaks in the HTML output? How would you solve this? This is part of a larger web app I'm building. How would you solve this? This is my first time working with Html LTS. Has anyone dealt with something similar? I'm developing on Windows 10 with Html. Any pointers in the right direction?