Line breaks won't display in textarea in IE

Question

Using jQuery\'s .load() method I\'m loading text into a textarea. Works fine in Chrome & FF. As always, IE just has to be different and won\'t display the l

Answer 1

This is probably a line-ending issue. Are the line breaks in the text \ns or \r\ns? If they're just \ns try normalizing the text. You can do this with a bit of JavaScript:

function normalizeNewlines(text)
{
    return text.replace(/(\r\n|\r|\n)/g, '\r\n');
}

This is a solution that's worked for me in the past when doing essentially the reverse: I needed to take text out of a

 that could be pasted into !@#$ing Notepad and show up with the line breaks intact.