I'm having jQuery take some textarea content and insert it into an li.
I want it to visually retain the line breaks.
There must be a really simple way to do this...
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A:
you can simply do:
textAreaContent=textAreaContent.replace(/\n/g,"<br>");
mck89
2010-05-27 07:54:17
Cheers, this kind of worked, except it would treat multiple line breaks as a single line break.
gbhall
2010-05-27 08:02:50
I've updated it and now it uses a regexp so if you want to treat multiple line breaks as a single br change the regexp with: /\n+/g
mck89
2010-05-27 08:05:46
Thank you. Hopefully someone will find your answer useful, but the function below works as well. I feel kind of bad that you're making more effort, but a function is more desirable.
gbhall
2010-05-27 08:09:29
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A:
function nl2br (str, is_xhtml) {
var breakTag = (is_xhtml || typeof is_xhtml === 'undefined') ? '<br />' : '<br>';
return (str + '').replace(/([^>\r\n]?)(\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n)/g, '$1'+ breakTag +'$2');
}
aSeptik
2010-05-27 07:56:54