What do you call the process of converting line breaks into html elements?
- by Ben Lee
On sites with user-created content (such as programmers SE) or blogging software back-ends, line breaks entered by the user in the content area are frequently converted into <br> and/or <p> tags when rendered on the front-end. For example, this:
A limerick
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
Might render html like this:
<p>
A limerick
</p>
<p>
There once was a man from Nantucket<br>
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
</p>
What is the standard name for this process of converting line breaks into html?
