HTML page doesn't show new line on textarea on content coming from multline fields

HTML page doesn't show new line on textarea on content coming from multline fields

I get this code on a HTML page:

  1. <textarea readonly="readonly" rows="10" cols="100"><%=form.multiline%></textarea>
But it doesn't show line breaks from multiline field content.
I already tried to do a replaceAll("\\n", "<br>"), replaceAll("\\n", "\r\n") or replaceAll("\\n", "&#10;"), none of them work.