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

The following code works well (On FireFox, IE and Chrome) :

var display_out = "This is line 1" + "
" + "This is line 2";

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = display_out;