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Gunner4Life
Gunner4Life

Reputation: 756

Newline character lost in IE8 textarea

I am trying to read text from a textarea in IE8 using some JavaScript, using the prototype library selector - "$F(text-area-id)"

The text I get out of this does not preserve the new lines present in the textarea. Is there any CSS properties I need to set for achieving this?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 987

Answers (1)

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 57297

Without seeing any of your code (ahem), new lines are usually put in "automagically" by the wrapping on the text area. You can override this with white-space style.

Alternatively, you can search your string for the newline character \n which sometimes gets "lost in translation".

Upvotes: 1

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