Textarea - output not showing linebreaks

[kenno69]

Hello there
I have a textarea on my website, and when i enter text into it, and if the text has a linebreak in it, it just doesn't read it, and just prints it as 1 line instead of 2 or 3.
Here is the code

<form name="notes"><textarea id="note" cols="40" rows="5"></textarea><br /><input type='button' onclick='UpdateNotes()' value='Update' /></form>

function UpdateNotes(){
	var ajaxRequest;  // The variable that makes Ajax possible!
	try{
		// Opera 8.0+, Firefox, Safari
		ajaxRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
	} catch (e){
		// Internet Explorer Browsers
		try{
			ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
		} catch (e) {
			try{
				ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
			} catch (e){
				// Something went wrong
				alert("Your browser broke!");
				return false;
			}
		}
	}

	// Create a function that will receive data sent from the server
	ajaxRequest.onreadystatechange = function(){
		if(ajaxRequest.readyState == 4){
			var ajaxDisplay = document.getElementById('ajaxDiv');
			ajaxDisplay.innerHTML = ajaxRequest.responseText;
		}
	}
	var note = document.getElementById('note').value;
	var ajaxDisplay1 = document.getElementById('ajaxDiv1');
	ajaxDisplay1.innerHTML = note;
	
	
	var queryString = "?action=update&note=" + note;
	ajaxRequest.open("GET", "ajax.php" + queryString, true);
	ajaxRequest.send(null); 
}

And when i display for example this text
"hello
my friend"
It will display it as hellomy friend
Please help

[Old Pedant]

Nothing to do with Ajax.

Strictly an HTML question.

*ALL* whitespace in HTML output--including many whitespace characters in a row--is displayed in HTML pages as a *single* ordinary space. And, yes, a line break *IS* considered whitespace.

If you want to display text that includes linebreaks in HTML so that the linebreaks show, you can either:
(1) Put the text in between <pre> and </pre> tags.
or
(2) Use your server side language or client side JavaScript to convert the line breaks into <br /> tags.

[rfresh]

For textarea's you have end each line with a CRLF. So, to have an empty line you would simply have just CRLF.

[Dineshphp]

Try This example to solve the problem


<?php
if($_POST['txtcomments'])
{
echo 'comments'.nl2br($_POST['txtcomments']);
}
else
{
?>

<form method='post' action='textarea.php'>
<textarea name='txtcomments' style='width:300px;height:300px;' >

</textarea>
<input type='submit' value='Click to submit'/>
</form>

<?php

}
?>

[uparmored]

*edit Sorry, I see that bumping old threads is frowned upon. I'll start a new thread.