Inserting a newline into a pre tag (IE, Javascript)

Question

In IE when I insert text into a

 tag the newlines are ignored:






        

Answer 1

The workaround can be found in the page linked to in the accepted answer. For ease of use here it is:

if (elem.tagName == "PRE" && "outerHTML" in elem)
{
    elem.outerHTML = "
" + str + "
";
}
else
{
    elem.innerHTML = str;
}