I know when saving a textarea you can use the nl2br() or str_replace to change the /n to br tags etc. However what im not sure about how to insert line breaks into a textare
From PHP using single quotes for the line break worked for me to support the line breaks when I pass that var to an HTML text area value attribute
PHP
foreach ($videoUrls as $key => $value) {
$textAreaValue .= $value->video_url . '\n';
}
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HTML/JS
$( document ).ready(function() {
var text = "= htmlspecialchars($textAreaValue); ?>";
document.getElementById("video_urls_textarea").value = text;
});