VisualForce: convert carriage returns to html line-breaks in a long text field

Question

In Salesforce, if I'm binding a text field into a VisualForce page, whats a good way to convert the carriage returns in the text-field into HTML <br/> tags?

e.g. starting from something like this:

<apex:page standardController="Case">

  <apex:pageBlock title="Test">

      <p>{!case.Description}</p>

  </apex:pageBlock>                   

  <apex:detail relatedList="false" />

</apex:page>   

... if the Description is long with lots of carriage returns, how do I HTML-ify it?

Answer 1

Try using this:

<apex:outputField value="{!case.Description}"/>

Using output fields will support formatting automagically.

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