jQuery text() function loses line breaks in IE

Question

This is quite a talked about problem on the jQuery forums but I can\'t figure out a solution for my situation.

I have an unordered list with some text elements in th

Answer 1

Here is a far simpler solution to convert any HTML into plain text with line breaks based on the use of
or

tags.

function htmlDecodeWithLineBreaks(html) {
  var breakToken = '_______break_______',
      lineBreakedHtml = html.replace(//gi, breakToken).replace(/(.*?)<\/p>/gi, breakToken + '$1' + breakToken);
  return $('
').html(lineBreakedHtml).text().replace(new RegExp(breakToken, 'g'), '\n');
}

For example, calling the following method:

htmlDecodeWithLineBreaks('line 1
line & 2
' + 
  'line > 3
paragraph 1
line 4')

returns:

line 1
line & 2
line > 3
paragraph 1
line 4

Hope that helps ;)