If you want to fill in textareas with multiple lines of text (containing line breaks / new lines) you can use Cucumber's docstrings Show archive.org snapshot :

And I fill in "Comment" with:

"""
This is a long comment.
With multiple lines.

And paragraphs.
"""

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