How to use linebreaks in a textbox?

I am saving text from a textarea in the database and display it in another textarea. The linebreaks are displayed as \n which should be right, but the textarea is displaying them instead of do开发者_Go百科ing the breaks! How can I fix this?

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You need to send a literal line break, not an escape sequence.

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Thank you David,

this worked...

str_replace('\n', "
", $text);