Replace Page Breaks

[gojita]

I want to know if there is a way to replace page breaks (caused by pressing Enter/Return in a text feild) with <br> or something else.
Thanks for your help!

[cg9com]

\n , works in javascript
you could use css to conserve white space

[gojita]

How would you do that?

[cg9com]

whats a text box? textarea? im pretty sure they preserve the spaces
<textarea></textarea>

<script type="text/javascript">
alert('line1\nline2');
</script>

[rsci]

Are you wanting to take the text entered into textarea and replace the instances when a user has pressed return with <br> code?

[whammy]

Are you perhaps pulling this from a database using server-side scripting?

[gojita]

Originally posted by rsci
Are you wanting to take the text entered into textarea and replace the instances when a user has pressed return with <br> code?

Yeah, this is what I wanted.
If you know how, I would really appreciate it!

[glenngv]

str=document.formNameHere.textareaNameHere.value.replace(/\n/g,'<br />');
alert(str)

[gojita]

Thanks!