Creating newlines in preformatted tags such as <pre> and <textarea>?

[rehno-lindeque]

Is there a way of inserting newlines into tags such as <pre> and <textarea>?
For example, the following does not have the desired result of 2 separate lines as you would have in regular html:

%textarea
  This is line number 1.
  This is line number 2.

There might be other related issues with preformatted text. I seem to remember that you can insert strings into <pre> you wouldn't be able to insert into normal html...?

[snoyberg]

Hamlet doesn't actually pay attention to what tags you're writing. To get the desired result, you'd need:

%textarea
  This is line number 1.
  \
  This is line number 2.

See the backslash escaping section of http://docs.yesodweb.com/book/hamlet/

[rehno-lindeque]

Oh right, for some reason I didn't realize that \ could create newlines in the html. Thanks for that