This tip is maybe usefull for some people. If you want to show something like that on your publication from a single field:
You don't need to use an HTML field, you can do it with a text field. The carriage returns are not showed in HTML so if you live the variable call in smarty like this:
you will have as result:
Instead you must use:
To replace the carriage returns with a
or whatever you want. With this method you can control much better the input of the users and you don't need to put a full and powerfull HTMLArea to do something so simple.