I have a textarea. When I paste text with line breaks into it, the line breaks are automatically removed. But when I manually enter line breaks (hitting carraige return), they are preserved.
How do I force the textarea to preserve line breaks with pasted text?
The line breaks are always preserved when pasted on textarea.
Maybe the source have a different line break, you are copying from what program?
Don't know if this applies to all browsers, but in Google Chrome (6 and 7), line breaks in pasted text gets removed if the textarea's style is set to white-space: nowrap;.
I used this style setting to prevent the default wrapping of long lines and experienced the same problem as yours. Later I realized that setting the textarea attribute wrap to off does a much better job. Be aware that wrap="off" is widely supported but not standardized.