Split string in JavaScript and detect line break

Question

I have a small function I found that takes a string from a textarea and then puts it into a canvas element and wraps the text when the line gets to

Answer 1

This is what I used to print text to a canvas. The input is not coming from a textarea, but from input and I'm only splitting by space. Definitely not perfect, but works for my case. It returns the lines in an array:

splitTextToLines: function (text) {
        var idealSplit = 7,
            maxSplit = 20,
            lineCounter = 0,
            lineIndex = 0,
            lines = [""],
            ch, i;

        for (i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
            ch = text[i];
            if ((lineCounter >= idealSplit && ch === " ") || lineCounter >= maxSplit) {
                ch = "";
                lineCounter = -1;
                lineIndex++;
                lines.push("");
            }
            lines[lineIndex] += ch;
            lineCounter++;
        }

        return lines;
    }