Newline problem when writing to HTML using JavaScript

Question

I\'m using regular textbox as a text input where the users wrties their comments. I then use JQuery and JSON to send data to the server and then insert it into

Answer 1

where do you want to display the text? in a textarea or directly on the page?

if on the page you'll have to convert the newlines to
tags when getting the text from the db and printing it to the page.