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POHow to add line breaks in a widget description in Wordpress?
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copied!<p>I would like to add line breaks inside a widget description in Wordpress to show in the admin panel the usage instructions, like this:</p> <pre><code>To format the text use the tags: <h3>Subtitle</h3> <strong>Bold</strong> [:pt]Text in Portuguese [:en]Text in English [:es]Text in Spanish </code></pre> <p>The idea so far is adding spaces using ISO 8859-1 symbol (<code>&nbsp;</code>) which is not the best solution (the description is in portuguese):</p> <pre><code>register_sidebar( array( 'name' => 'Widget', 'id' => 'widget-user', 'description' => "Para formatar o texto, utilize as tags: <h3>Subtítulo laranja</h3> &nbsp; <strong>Negrito</strong> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#91;:pt]Texto em português nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#91;:en]Texto em inglês &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#91;:es]Texto em espanhol &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (o que estiver escrito fora das tags de idioma irão aparecer para todos", 'before_widget' => '<div class="widget-user"><div class="box">', 'after_widget' => '</div></div>', 'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h3>', )); </code></pre> <p>Different from the itens 'before_widget', 'after_widget', 'before_title' and 'after_title', the 'description' does not accept HTML. If it did, it would be easy to solve by simply escaping HTML I didn't want to be converted in HTML with a php function like <code>htmlspecialchars()</code>.</p> <p>I have desperately tried these without success:</p> <pre><code>"description" => "This is a line <br> break test" "description" => "This is a line \n break test" "description" => "This is a line \r break test" "description" => "This is a line \r\n break test" "description" => htmlspecialchars("This is a line <br>break test") htmlspecialchars("description") => "This is a line <br>break test" "description" => htmlentities("This is a line <br>break test") "description" => html_entity_decode("This is a line <br>break test") "description" => nl2br("This is a line <br> break test") nl2br("description") => nl2br("This is a line <br> break test") </code></pre> <p>So, any ideas?</p>

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