php - How to keep line breaks when email gets text?

I am using phpmailer to do send email function, now my problem is when I pass the textarea value post to the phpmailer function, it cannot keep line breaks to send the email to the selected recipient.

For example, if I want to send content from textarea which is:

A lion was once sleeping in the jungle when a mouse started running up and down his body just for fun. 
This disturbed the lion’s sleep, and he woke up quite angry.
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Below is my sample code:

$tajuk_email = $_POST['tajuk_email'];
$content= $_POST['content'];
$content_1 = "<p style='white-space: pre-wrap;'>".$content."</p>";
$checkbox_value = $_POST['checkbox_value'];
$checkbox_value = str_replace("=>", ":", $checkbox_value); 
$recipients = json_decode( "{" . $checkbox_value . "}", true);
require 'plugins/mail/class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->IsSMTP();                                //Sets Mailer to send message using SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';     //Sets the SMTP hosts of your Email hosting, this for Godaddy
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->Port = 465;                              //Sets the default SMTP server port
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;                         //Sets SMTP authentication. Utilizes the Username and Password variables
$mail->Username = '[email protected]';                  //Sets SMTP username
$mail->Password = '88853sdhdfh';                    //Sets SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';                      //Sets connection prefix. Options are "", "ssl" or "tls"
$mail->From = "Tester";                 //Sets the From email address for the message
$mail->FromName = "Tester 1";               //Sets the From name of the message
foreach ($recipients  as $email => $name) {
$mail->AddAddress($email, $name); 
} 
$mail->AddCC("[email protected]", "sagsa"); //Adds a "Cc" address
$mail->WordWrap = 50;                           //Sets word wrapping on the body of the message to a given number of characters
$mail->IsHTML(true);                            //Sets message type to HTML             
$mail->Subject = $tajuk_email;              //Sets the Subject of the message
$mail->Body = $content_1;               //An HTML or plain text message body
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The result for content is, it cannot keep line break to send an email:

A lion was once sleeping in the jungle when a mouse started running up and down his body just for fun. This disturbed the lion’s sleep, and he woke up quite angry.
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