Javascript Line Break Textarea

Question

I have a text area that I want to pre-populate with some specific text that includes line breaks. I\'m populating the area onLoad but I can\'t get the line breaks to work c

Answer 1

Just use the newline character: \n.

So, if you want the textarea to look like this:

This is line 1
This is line 2

You would use a string like this:

"This is line 1\nThis is line 2";

See a demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/MzmBd/