php :: new line in textarea?

Question

How do you create a new line in a textarea when inserting the text via php?

I thought it was \\n but that gets literally printed in the textarea.

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Answer 1

What Alay Geleynse said was right, I had the same problem as you and the issue was due to the escape characters (\r, \n) was there. To 'unescaped' the variable I used $var = stripcslashes($var) and it's shown correctly