How to break line within <%= here is a string %>

If I receive from my client a string with "Hello\nHow are you?"... Then: 1) If I do the job to replace \n by <\br> then the string that appears on the browser is: Hello<\br>How are you? 2) If I don't replace anything, then (of course :) the string in the browser is: Hello\nHow are you? So my question is: How you guys handle the line breaking without going to go for too complex code in .ejs placeholders? Thanks, Sebastien PS: <\br> is not the right html tag for break line, I write it like this to keep it displayed in this editor