CKEditor removing \n on edit

There could be multiple ways to approach this but probably all of them require you to migrate from \n to HTML.

One solution would be to replace \n with <br> from the existing content. This could be done for example in hook_entity_load, when editing content. This way when the content is re-saved, it would have the newlines converted.

In Drupal 7, this was also never supported. I'm surprised it worked at all, but it definitely only worked by accident.

@lauriii is right in #4: the recommended solution is to "migrate" (transform if you will) the existing content.

Ok, this is actually correct. I thought it was working in Drupal 7 by default, but I've realised that I was actually using module https://www.drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_linebreaks → (currently supporting D9, but not CKEditor 5)

Thanks for explanation!

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Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

I also saw something similar in a Drupal 7 site migrated to Drupal 10 (originally Drupal 5), where line breaks were lost as soon as I switched "Text editor" to "CKEditor 5" (the original filter), or just to a filter using CKEditor -- all lines ended up in one long row.

After finding this issue, I tried Wysiwyg Linebreaks → which got CKEditor 5 support in September 2024 → . It works like a charm, and all line breaks are wrapped beautifully in <p> tags -- thanks for helping out with CKEditor 5 support in ✨ CKEditor 5 Fixed @besek :)