Preserving the format of piped text from multi-line and essay text box when carrying answers forward

I struggled with this problem for quite sometime and could figure out two solutions for it. I'm not happy with either of them as they preserve only some of the formatting and not all, but they may get the job done for you. Both require JS to capture the entered text:
Adding the "

" tag to the text: This is an HTML tag for pre-formatted text, so line breaks and spaces are preserved. But browsers have different display defaults for it:
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function(){
	var text_value = this.getQuestionContainer().querySelector("textarea").value;
	var text_value_pre = "
" + text_value + "
";
	Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("text_value_pre",text_value_pre);
});
Now you can use the embedded variable 
text_value_pre
 to pipe the text anywhere.
Splitting the text and re-joining it: In this, one basically splits the text at a new line, stores it as an embedded variable. Then in the question where one wants to display it, re-joins the text:
In the text entry question:
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function(){
	var text_value = this.getQuestionContainer().querySelector("textarea").value;
	var text_value_split = text_value.replaceAll(/\\n/gm,"___");
	Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("text_value_split",text_value_split);
});
In the question, where you want to use the text, create an HTML div with some id like:
 
Will be Replaced

Now use JS to reformat the text and place it in the div.
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnReady(function(){
	var text_value_split = "${e://Field/text_value_split}"
	text_value_split = text_value_split.replaceAll("___",`
	`);
	this.getQuestionContainer().querySelector("#my_custom_text").innerText = text_value_split;
});
Note the use of backticks while replacing.
Demo.
 

Hi M_Baker , ahmedA ,
Just came across this thread and the bit of code - very ingenious. I just wanted to let you know that I have discovered that you don't need to do the JS code though. In the next question (on the next page) edit the question in HTML view and add

 and 

 and 

The

 
element is stands for pre-formatted. So whenever you want to tell the browser not to format the given HTML, such as line breaks or multiple spaces, the element is useful.