如何格式化文本区域中的文本

Question

I am adding some text by default to a textarea

%textarea.email_copy
    Hi <awesome friend>,

    I am using this site called XXXX, and you should check it out. It is for smart and thoughtful people to share about their experiences and ideas around topics they care about, and I think you are perfect for it.

    I generated a special invite for you:

    http://some_link

    <%= current_user.getFirstName() %>

However, when I look at the loaded page I see this

How can I add paragraphings or spacings between the paragraphs?

Answer 1

Check here: http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/haml/

~ - Ruby expression preserving whitespace, e.g. %pre~ @content.body
  Works just like =, but calls the find_and_preserve helper to keep
  line breaks intact in the output.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

A textarea cannot contain markup. If you want only presentation and no input, a div should do fine. If you want both presentation and input, you should look into a RTE.