Display formatted raw html with jquery

Question

I have a place where I am trying to show code in a text area. I have dumbed down the example but basically user can input some fields, click a button, and the code snippet

Answer 1

Add a \n if you want a new line like

var mySnippet = "
\n"
    + "
\n"
    + "
\n"
    + "
\n";
$('#mySnippetArea').text(eventSnippet);

Single character escape sequences:

\b: backspace (U+0008 BACKSPACE)
\f: form feed (U+000C FORM FEED)
\n: line feed (U+000A LINE FEED)
\r: carriage return (U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN)
\t: horizontal tab (U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION)
\v: vertical tab (U+000B LINE TABULATION)
\0: null character (U+0000 NULL)

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/jtx7e/