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

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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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Amardeep Raj 18 on at

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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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Nandit 1,568 Moderator on at

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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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OC-05102118-0 4 on at

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Hi Nandit.

Thanks for the solution!

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,493 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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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"

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