Add a linebreak in an HTML text area
If it's not vb you can use
(ascii codes for cr,lf)
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';
}
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>
How to add line-breaks to a textarea with text over more lines
You can add the attribue wrap="hard"
and it will send a newline wherever it wraps:
<textarea wrap="hard" name="text-1" id="text-1" rows="2" maxlength="35">Click here to enter text</textarea>
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea
Edit:
the cols attribute must be specified.
Preserve line breaks in textarea
Generally you just need to add
white-space: pre-line;
whitespace trimmed to single whitespace orwhite-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>
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>
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>
populating textarea with javascript, adding line breaks
Just add \n in the string to push it to a new line.
<script>
let date= "11/01/2020";
let text= "Merry Christmas!";
function myFunction() {
document.getElementById("demo").value= `On ${date} you replied: \n${text}`;
}
</script>
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