nextcloud / nextcloud/contacts

Notes field not accepting line breaks

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Since Oct 28, 2025.

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Description

Describe the bug

selecting the notes field of a contact and adding text does not allow me to add line breaks. Instead line breaks are just ignored.

Steps to reproduce

when making changes to a contact and add text to the notes filed.

Expected behavior

I would expect line breaks to be accepted so that my note for a contact can be structured.

Actual behavior

Line breaks in text added to notes files are ignored.

Contact version

7.2.6

Operating system

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PHP engine version

None

Web server

Apache (supported)

Database

MariaDB

Additional info

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