jQuery javascript regex Replace with \n

Question

How do i write a regex to replace
or
with \\n. I\'m trying to move text from div to textarea, but don\'t want

Answer 1

True jQuery way if you want to change directly the DOM without messing with inner HTML:

$('#text').find('br').prepend(document.createTextNode('\n')).remove();

Prepend inserts inside the element, before() is the method we need here:

$('#text').find('br').before(document.createTextNode('\n')).remove();

Code will find any
elements, insert raw text with new line character and then remove the
elements.

This should be faster if you work with long texts since there are no string operations here.

To display the new lines:

$('#text').css('white-space', 'pre-line');