Javascript sending key codes to a <textarea> element

Question

I can\'t figure out how to trigger a keydown event on a textarea element, e.g. imagine i have two textarea elements and when i type something in the first one, I want the se

Answer 1

Try this:

$(document).ready(function() {
var $comment = '';
$('#first').keyup(function() {
    $comment = $(this).val();
    $comment = $comment.replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/g,"").replace(/\n/g, "
").replace(/\n\n+/g, '

'); // this strips tags and then replaces new lines with breaks
    $('#second').html( $comment );
});
});

Working demo: http://jsbin.com/ivulu

Or if you don't want to sanitize the data: http://jsbin.com/oposu

$(document).ready(function() {
var $comment = '';
$('#first').keyup(function() {
    $comment = $(this).val();
    $('#second').html( $comment );
});
});