contentEditable field to maintain newlines upon database entry

Question

I have a div with the attribute contentEditable set.

This allows me to have a free-form editable textarea, without the need for any form input fields: http://jsfiddl

Answer 1

function readContentWithBreaks(elem){
  if(elem[0].innerText){
    return elem[0].innerText.replace(/\n/ig,"
");
  }else{
    return elem.html();
  }
}

Since webkit browsers support innerText I decided to detect for that swap the /n they add. For Firefox it already gives the content with
so we can just take it as-is.