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Try,

text.replace(/\s*/g," ")

This will collapse all contigious whitespace into a single space.

chuckj 2010-07-15 04:10:15

/\s*/g will match any white space, not just line breaks, I think what is wanted is: text.replace(/[\n\r\f]/g, ' ') which will replace all new line, return, and form feed characters with a space.

Pullets Forever 2010-07-15 05:36:38

I was replying to the title not the question I guess. The question only asks about line breaks but the title mentions whitespace.

chuckj 2010-07-17 18:35:07

Answer 2

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an alternative is to simply ban the use of the enter key in the textarea in the first place, which can be done with event handlers (onKeyPress, for example)

simonalexander2005 2010-07-15 09:22:28

that can't be done since i'm keeping 2 kinds of data, the formatted data which they need to press enter and others, and all text data.

rob waminal 2010-07-15 11:04:38

Answer 3

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Thanks to Scozzard here's the answer.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/238002/replace-line-breaks-in-a-string-c

rob waminal 2010-07-23 08:56:13

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