How to print \n in a <textarea> using JavaScript?

Question

Ex : document.write("\n");

I want to print that \n in my <textarea>.

Answer 1

document.write("\\n");

That will put a "\n" in your text area.

Answer 2

The \ starts an escape sequence (for a new line), so you have to escape it to get a literal slash.

"\\n"

For a textarea, you just write that between <textarea …> and </textarea> (if you are writing the whole thing with document.write or reference_to_textarea.value = "\\n" if you are setting it after the element exists in the DOM.