Show newlines in html textarea

Question

I have a textarea and I set its text to a string with \\n in it. I would expect that to represent a line break.

$(\"#ConfirmEmailText\").text(\         


        

Answer 1

try

text = text.replace("\n","<br/>");

Answer 2

Did you try?

   text = text.replace(/(\r\n|\r|\n)/g, '\n');

Or use the DOM structure's .nodeValue property.

EDIT : i may have not been clear. Instead of using innerHTML to set the text try using nodeValue

Answer 3

Set the value not the innerText;

$("#ConfirmEmailText").val("test\n\ntest\ntest");