title: Remove <br /> from textarea output
body: <p>I am using a plugin in Wordpress which outputs its text via the following -</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;span class="value-text"&gt;&lt;?php echo esc_html( $value_text ); ?&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, if the original text entry contained line breaks the output looks like this -</p>
  
  <pre><code>line&lt;br /&gt;
  line
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I output the text without <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code></p>