Preserve line breaks entered in multi-line property editors

[JaneSjs]

• T15725 - How to disabled design surface's description? https://surveyjs.answerdesk.io/internal/ticket/details/T15725

Because when I edit the description of the design surface, after unfocusing, it replaces the "\n" in the string with a space. I'm not sure if this is normal behavior, but to prevent it from happening, I would like to disable the description.

• T16617 - Page description line breaks lost https://surveyjs.answerdesk.io/internal/ticket/details/T16617

If you want to stick to a textarea support to display the entered linebreaks should be added! How should the user know that his entered linebreak is not supported for the displayed text? Everyone would call that a bug if there is no visible information that a linebreak is not supported.

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Issue A user enters a survey description within the property grid editor, which allows line breaks.

However, in preview or within the inplace editor, a description doesn't preserve line breaks.

Possible options to handle this:

• Enable line breaks within the in-place editor.
• Change the long-text property grid editor to the single-line input editor for the Description field. Use the following code to register a single-line input field for the Description property:

  SurveyCreatorCore.PropertyGridEditorCollection.register({
  fit: function(prop) {
      return prop.name === "description";
  },
  getJSON: function(obj,  prop,options) {
      return { type: "text" }
  }
  });

[novikov82]

spike - https://github.com/surveyjs/survey-creator/compare/issue/5185-Survey-Description-Property-Editor-allows-entering-new-lines-which-are-further-eliminated-in-preview?expand=1

[AndOne1974]

Good News: 1) Linebreaks can be entered. 2) They can be entered directly or in the right sidebar. 3) Pasted linebreaks are not removed.

Bad news: In the survey edit area linebreaks can only be entered via . Normal removes the focus from the description field. This is unusable, because (Line break instead of paragraph) is not known to many users.