textarea line breaks javascript

Question

I got a textarea in javascript but the problem is that when i make line breaks in it they won't display how can i do this ?

i'm getting the value and use a write function but it won't give line breaks

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

you need to use /n for linebreaks in a textarea

Answer 2

A new line is just whitespace to the browser and won't be treated any different to a normal space (" "). To get a new line, you must insert <BR /> elements.

Another attempt to solve the problem: Type the text into the textarea and then add some JavaScript behind a button to convert the invisible characters to something readable and dump the result to a DIV. That will tell you what your browser wants.

Answer 3

did u tried /n

Answer 4

Problem comes from the fact that line breaks (\n\r?) are not the same as HTML < br /> tags

var text = document.forms[0].txt.value;
text = text.replace(/\n\r?/g, '<br />');

Answer 5

How would this work serverside? using this I get an error

var text = Request.Form("test") text = text.replace(/\n\r?/g, '
');

Microsoft JScript runtime error '800a01b6'

Object doesn't support this property or method

Answer 6

thanks for this

.replace(/\n\r?/g, '<br />');