HTML5 canvas ctx.fillText won't do line breaks?
ctxPaint.fillText("s  ome n \n <br/> thing", x, y);

function drawMultilineText(){

    // set context and formatting
    var context = document.getElementById("canvas").getContext('2d');
    context.font = fontStyleStr;
    context.textAlign = "center";
    context.textBaseline = "top";
    context.fillStyle = "#000000";

    // prepare textarea value to be drawn as multiline text.
    var textval = document.getElementByID("textarea").value;
    var textvalArr = toMultiLine(textval);
    var linespacing = 25;
    var startX = 0;
    var startY = 0;

    // draw each line on canvas.
    for(var i = 0; i < textvalArr.length; i++){
        context.fillText(textvalArr[i], x, y);
        y += linespacing;
    }
}

// Creates an array where the <br/> tag splits the values.
function toMultiLine(text){
   var textArr = new Array();
   text = text.replace(/nr?/g, '<br/>');
   textArr = text.split("<br/>");
   return textArr;
}