Add a Linebreak in an HTML Text Area

Add a linebreak in an HTML text area

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How to add line breaks to an HTML textarea

The problem comes from the fact that line breaks (\n\r?) are not the same as HTML <br/> tags:

var text = document.forms[0].txt.value;
text = text.replace(/\r?\n/g, '<br />');

Since many of the comments and my own experience have shown me that this <br> solution is not working as expected, here is an example of how to append a new line to a textarea using '\r\n':

function log(text) {
    var txtArea;

    txtArea = document.getElementById("txtDebug");
    txtArea.value += text + '\r\n';
}

How to add a new line in textarea element?

Try this one:

    <textarea cols='60' rows='8'>This is my statement one.
This is my statement2</textarea>

Preserve line breaks in textarea

Generally you just need to add

• white-space: pre-line; whitespace trimmed to single whitespace or

• white-space: pre-wrap; all whitespace preserved

to the element's style (CSS), where you want your text rendered with line-breaks.

How do I preserve line breaks when getting text from a textarea?

The easiest solution is to simply style the element you're inserting the text into with the following CSS property:

white-space: pre-wrap;

This property causes whitespace and newlines within the matching elements to be treated in the same way as inside a <textarea>. That is, consecutive whitespace is not collapsed, and lines are broken at explicit newlines (but are also wrapped automatically if they exceed the width of the element).

Given that several of the answers posted here so far have been vulnerable to HTML injection (e.g. because they assign unescaped user input to innerHTML) or otherwise buggy, let me give an example of how to do this safely and correctly, based on your original code:

document.getElementById('post-button').addEventListener('click', function () {  var post = document.createElement('p');  var postText = document.getElementById('post-text').value;  post.append(postText);  var card = document.createElement('div');  card.append(post);  var cardStack = document.getElementById('card-stack');  cardStack.prepend(card);});

#card-stack p {  background: #ddd;  white-space: pre-wrap;  /* <-- THIS PRESERVES THE LINE BREAKS */}textarea {  width: 100%;}

<textarea id="post-text" class="form-control" rows="8" placeholder="What's up?" required>Group Schedule:
Tuesday practice @ 5th floor (8pm - 11 pm)
Thursday practice @ 5th floor (8pm - 11 pm)
Sunday practice @ (9pm - 12 am)</textarea><br><input type="button" id="post-button" value="Post!"><div id="card-stack"></div>

Line breaks in textarea element

You could use the (it means new line in html) but maybe that's not a nice formatting, like you said...

The only way I can think to remove this issue is to remove the indentation. Its not the end of the world, but is there another way, to keep the nice formatting?

<tr>
  <td class="label">Clinic Times:</td>
  <td><textarea name="familyPlanningClinicSessionsClinicTimes">Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:</textarea></td>
</tr>

HTML textarea to javascript and keep line break

Replace \n,\r,\n\r with </br> in java script:

var myLineBreak = thetext.replace(/\r\n|\r|\n/g,"</br>");

function textwrite(){     thetext = document.getElementById("text_change").value;        var myLineBreak = thetext.replace(/\r\n|\r|\n/g,"</br>");
     document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = myLineBreak;    }

<textarea id='text_change' oninput='textwrite()'></textarea>        <p id="demo"></p>

Line break inside text area html

You need to convert the line breaks from the textarea (\r or \n) into line breaks your PDF can understand (<br /> <div> <li> etc).

a simple PHP way is

$string = nl2br($string);
// converts \n to <br />

If you need to transform those line breaks on the fly (like you're capturing the input and displaying it formatted as the user types), then do it in javascript. Here is a handy function taken from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7467863/1772933

function nl2br (str, is_xhtml) {
    if (typeof str === 'undefined' || str === null) {
        return '';
    }
    var breakTag = (is_xhtml || typeof is_xhtml === 'undefined') ? '<br />' : '<br>';
    return (str + '').replace(/([^>\r\n]?)(\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n)/g, '$1' + breakTag + '$2');
}

Here is an example of how to use that function as the user is typing

$('#TextArea').keypress(function(evt){
        $('#TextArea').html(nl2br($('#TextArea').val())); // replace linebreaks first
        $('#pdfPreviewArea').html($('#TextArea').val()); // copy to #pdfPreviewArea
    });

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