Request Money - Text written with line breaks is connected together when Editing Description

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Action Performed:

1. Open any chat.
2. Click the (+) icon > click request money.
3. On description input write something with a line break.
4. Click on Save> Request Money
5. Go to the Money Request thread and Notice that the Description Text with linebreaks is shown properly.
6. Click on the description to edit. Notice that text written with line breaks a connected together.

Expected Result:

Text written with line breaks is not connected together.

Actual Result:

Text written with line breaks is connected together.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: v1.3.59-0

Reproducible in staging?: Y

Reproducible in production?: N

If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:

Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

T137linebreak-1.mp4

Recording.1378.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

Issue reported by: @daveSeife

Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1693375111880949

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @muttmuure (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[melvin-bot]

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @srikarparsi (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[StevenKKC]

Proposal

Please state again the problem we are trying to solve in this issue.

Text written with line breaks is connected together when Editing Description.

What is the cause of this issue?

The root cause is that EditRequestDescriptionPage does not allow multiline description input.

App/src/pages/EditRequestDescriptionPage.js

Lines 43 to 52 in 6e17b64

	<TextInput
	// Comment field does not have its modified counterpart
	inputID="comment"
	name="comment"
	defaultValue={defaultDescription}
	label={translate('moneyRequestConfirmationList.whatsItFor')}
	accessibilityLabel={translate('moneyRequestConfirmationList.whatsItFor')}
	accessibilityRole={CONST.ACCESSIBILITY_ROLE.TEXT}
	ref={(e) => (descriptionInputRef.current = e)}
	/>

What changes do you think we should make to solve the problem?

We can add multiline support in EditRequestDescriptionPage.

    <TextInput
        ...
        autoGrowHeight
        containerStyles={[styles.autoGrowHeightMultilineInput]}
        textAlignVertical="top"
        submitOnEnter={!Browser.isMobile()}
    />

What alternative solutions have you investigated? (Optional)

None.

[StevenKKC]

It seems dupe of #25494

[aimane-chnaif]

Let's close this as dupe of #25494