HTML Display line breaks within textarea

Question

I have asked this question now several ways, but still have not gotten an answer.

When you capture asci text in a textarea that includes line breaks, it seems to ins

Answer 1

If you are using javascript you can use the textarea element value Property.

var tb = document.getElementById("tb");

var newLine = "\r\n";

var text = "Output: " + newLine + "-------------------" + 
                        newLine + "line 1:	" + 
                        newLine + "line 2:	";

tb.value = text;
//console.log(text);

Output: 
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Run it on JSFiddle