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How to preserve line breaks from Microsoft Forms when sending emails with Power Automate?

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Posted on 5 Oct 2024 21:31:06 by OC-05102118-0

Hello everyone.

I am using a form in Forms where people need to respond by skipping lines, for example:

Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4

and I use the Send an email (V2) function to collect the information in the forms to send the email.

With this code:

@{body('Get_response_details')?['ra6608fb4e70b489e84fba2b0bdab8552']}

Then the email is sent as:

Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4

Is there any way to identify so that the items are on each line?

* The email is sent in html format

Any ideas or support would be appreciated!

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Michael E. Gernaey 42,623 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 06 Oct 2024 at 07:05:27

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Hi

Just to add though onto Nandits answer as its important to make sure your email is in HTML mode, if not it will not work.

For future reference

Secondarily, you can create an Array, and store the values there.

Then use the Create HTML table, and pass in your array.

It will automatically add "returns"
OC-05102118-0 4 on 06 Oct 2024 at 00:07:10

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Hi Nandit.

Thanks for the solution!
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Nandit 1,563 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 05 Oct 2024 at 23:42:39

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Hi OC-05102118-0,

Just add a Compose action in your flow with the following expression:

replace(body('Get_response_details')?['ra6608fb4e70b489e84fba2b0bdab8552'],decodeUriComponent('%0A'),'<br>')

Then use the Compose output in your "Send an email V2" action. This will help you preserve the line breaks.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Nandit

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Amardeep Raj 18 on 05 Oct 2024 at 22:34:39

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Hi

You can try both expression which mentioned below

@{replace(body('Get_response_details')?['ra6608fb4e70b489e84fba2b0bdab8552'], decodeUriComponent('%0A'), '<br>')} OR @{replace(body('Get_response_details')?['ra6608fb4e70b489e84fba2b0bdab8552'], '\n', '<br>')}

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