How can I insert new line/carriage returns into an element.textContent?

Question

As silly as it may sound, I still haven\'t found an appropriate answer.

Let\'s say I want to dynamically create a new DOM element and fill up its textContent/innerTe

Answer 1

None of the above solutions worked for me. I was trying to add a line feed and additional text to a

element. I typically use Firefox, but I do need browser compatibility. I read that only Firefox supports the textContent property, only Internet Explorer supports the innerText property, but both support the innerHTML property. However, neither adding
nor \n nor \r\n to any of those properties resulted in a new line. The following, however, did work:

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