I have a HTML file with textarea input element and the content is fetched from database which includes <br/> tags.

My JSON response is:
NDAs can be "mutual", meaning both parties are restricted in their use of the materials provided, or they can restrict the use of material by a single party. <br /> It is also possible for an employee to sign an NDA or NDA-like agreement with an employer.

On rendering it is not taking a new line and displaying <br/> as it is(taking as static content). I used handlebars {{{content}}} but not helpful.

I have a HTML file with textarea input element and the content is fetched from database which includes <br/> tags.

My JSON response is:
NDAs can be "mutual", meaning both parties are restricted in their use of the materials provided, or they can restrict the use of material by a single party. <br /> It is also possible for an employee to sign an NDA or NDA-like agreement with an employer.

On rendering it is not taking a new line and displaying <br/> as it is(taking as static content). I used handlebars {{{content}}} but not helpful.

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• You can't render html into a textarea, but you can force line breaks replacing <br> tags by \n or \r. To be sure, use a regex into replace function: yourString = yourString.replace(/\r?\n/g, '') – kosmos Commented May 11, 2015 at 8:12
• Did you try encoding your HTML? Like <br> bees <br>? – Salman Arshad Commented May 11, 2015 at 8:52

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You simply can't enter HTML inside a textarea, you can only insert pure text.

You may want to use an editable div (<div contenteditable="true">...</div>)

Ref. https://developer.mozilla/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Content_Editable

If you want that your HTML will be rendered, you should use contenteditable to do so.

You can try replacing <br /> with /n. That should resolve your issue.