# Sitecore 8.2 MVC multi-line field not rendering line breaks correctly


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In recent versions of Sitecore – at least 8.2 and some versions of 8.1 – line breaks in multi-line fields are not rendered as `<br/>` tags when output on a page although they are supposed to.

```csharp
@Html.Sitecore().Field("Multi line field")
```
 
When outputting fields like above it runs the `renderField` pipeline to get the content of the field.
 
You can force the correct behavior adding the `linebreaks` parameter.

```csharp
@Html.Sitecore().Field("Multi line field", new { linebreaks = "<br/>" })
```
 
This will now work as expected and render all line breaks as the value of that parameter –  `<br/>`. You can use anything you like here. When the parameter is not there, it is supposed to fall back to using `<br/>`, but it currently doesn’t.
 
Sitecore is tracking this bug by **reference number 95002**.
 
## Workaround/solution
 
It’s pretty easy to fix though. One way (as the supplied fix by Sitecore) is to replace the `GetMemoFieldValue` processor in the `renderField` pipeline with a fixed version, which falls back to using `<br/>` if the linebreaks parameter is `null`.

```csharp
public class GetMemoFieldValue
{
    public void Process(RenderFieldArgs args)
    {
        switch (args.FieldTypeKey)
        {
            case "memo":
            case "multi-line text":
                string linebreaks = args.RenderParameters["line-breaks"] 
                                    ?? args.RenderParameters["linebreaks"])
                                    ?? "<br/>";
                args.Result.FirstPart = GetMemoFieldValue.Replace(args.Result.FirstPart, linebreaks);
                args.Result.LastPart = GetMemoFieldValue.Replace(args.Result.LastPart, linebreaks);
                break;
        }
    }

    private static string Replace(string output, string linebreaks)
    {
        output = output.Replace("\r\n", linebreaks);
        output = output.Replace("\n\r", linebreaks);
        output = output.Replace("\n", linebreaks);
        output = output.Replace("\r", linebreaks);
        return output;
    }
}
```
 
Then you just replace the existing `GetMemoFieldValue` processor with the fixed on with a config patch.
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