In table, <br /> tags displaying on the screen rathen than new line

Question

I have a <table> and inside <td> tags inside it where I am displaying the retrieved data from the backend. Before saving my data to database, I used this to convert \\n and \\r into <br /> tags:

$data = nl2br($request->data);
$data = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n\r", "\r", "\n"), "", $data);

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To retrieve data, I tried directly echo-ing the value - ( {{ }} is echo for Laravel)

<tr> 
  <td>{{ $item->data }}</td>
</tr>

However, this is displaying <br /> tags on the page instead of turning them into new line breaks.

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Then I tried using this approach, which I believe would work, however, this is also displaying the 
 on the text rather than converting it to new lines.

<tr> 
  <td>@if ($item){{ str_replace('<br />', '&#13;', $item->data) }}@endif</td>
</tr>

Also tried replacing br tags to \\n with using '\\n' and '\\\\n' inside str_replace() but no luck

How can I turn <br /> tags into new lines as usual inside table?

Answer 1

This has nothing to do with the table.

See the documentation :

Blade {{ }} statements are automatically sent through PHP's htmlentities function to prevent XSS attacks.

and

By default, Blade {{ }} statements are automatically sent through PHP's htmlentities function to prevent XSS attacks. If you do not want your data to be escaped, you may use the following syntax:

 Hello, {!! $name !!}. 

Be very careful when echoing content that is supplied by users of your application. Always use the escaped, double curly brace syntax to prevent XSS attacks when displaying user supplied data.