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

replace like this:

str.replace(/[\r\n]+/g, '\\\n') %>';

Answer 2

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/

Answer 3

As stated multiple times, you need the \n character.

see here: http://jsfiddle.net/XbALv/

document.getElementById("blah").value = 
"This" + "\n" +
"is some" + "\n" +
"text" + "\n";

Answer 4

i had tried many ways to break a textarea into an array. used this method, it might not be the best.

using .split('\n') does not remove the break and it will create whitespace or break when insert into database. therefore, i replace it with

textarea content:
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a = a.replace(/\n|\r\n|\r/g, "<br>");

var stringArray = a.split('<br>');

for (var i = 0; i < stringArray.length; i++) {
var myString = stringArray[i];
myString = myString.replace('<br>', "");

response.write(myString);
}

Answer 5

You need to replace line breaks with newline characters: \n