innerText.includes() stripping newlines

Question

I'm making a dictionary website for Lojban. It's relatively simple: load a premade <div id="entries"> and move all the entries with an innerText containing the search query into div#results.

The issue

There are no entries containing the string u.a, yet a result for one exists, whose innerText contains u\n\na. The innerText in search(query) seems to be removing newlines, even though (a) it shouldn't do that (b) running document.querySelector("#results .entry").innerText.includes("u.a") returns false.

Attempted fixes

Running .replaceAll(/\n+g/, " ") on the innerText before finding the search query in it

Relevant code

const id = (x) => document.getElementById(x);
function search(query) {
    var i = 0;
    var results = [];
    for (const entry of id("entries").childNodes) {
        const text = entry.innerText.replaceAll(/\n+/g, " ");
        if (text.includes(query)) {
            console.log(text, query, text.includes(query));
            results.push(entry);
            i++;
        }
    }
    return [i, results];
}
// ... lazy-loading function ...
var timer;
id("search").addEventListener("input", function() {
    clearTimeout(timer);
    id("status").innerHTML = "<span>.....</span>";
    const q = id("search").value;
    let page = 0;
    if (observer) {
        observer.disconnect();
    }
    timer = setTimeout(function() {
        if (q.length != 0) {
            const s = search(q);
            const l = String(s[0]);
            const res = s[1];
            const pad = "<span>" + "0".repeat(5 - l.length) + "</span>";
            id("status").innerHTML = pad + l;
            id("results").innerHTML = "";
            // ... lazy-loading + url updating ...
        } else {
            id("status").innerHTML = "";
            id("results").innerHTML = "";
            page = 0;
        }
    }, 100);
});

Answer 1

Solved this by adding one space character to my database-generating program. lol