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CR/LF in Textarea

Hi all,

My application is generating this textarea tag, since it is generic application I cant change even a single line of HTML/Javascript code.

Can any one please help me what common character / escape sequence I can use to show new line in textarea & can pass that in javascript at the same time.

Generated TextArea Tag:
<textarea onBlur="setValue(this, 'abcd
efgh');">abcd
efgh</textarea>

Above code is giving error because of semicolon (;) in between single quote (')

Thanks in advance,
-Vijay

divt

Try this:

<textarea onBlur="setValue(this, 'abcd%0D%0Aefgh');">abcd
efgh</textarea>

Hope it helps.

divt

Or this:

<textarea onBlur="setValue(this, 'abcd\u000D\u000Aefgh');">abcd
efgh</textarea>

vijayneema

ASKER

My Question is "what common character / escape sequence I can use to show new line in textarea & can pass that in javascript at the same time."

It can be either

<textarea onBlur="setValue(this, 'abcd
efgh');">abcd
efgh</textarea>

Or

<textarea onBlur="setValue(this, 'abcd%0D%0Aefgh');">abcd%0D%0Aefgh</textarea>

Or

<textarea onBlur="setValue(this, 'abcd\u000D\u000Aefgh');">abcd\u000d\u000defgh</textarea>

& none of these are solving my problem :(

Please help.

Thanks,
-Vijay

HonorGod

<textarea onBlur="setValue(this, 'abcd\u000D\u000Aefgh');">abcd<br>defgh</textarea>

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divt

I suspect that the issue is probably not with the semicolon (;) but instead with the single quote (') or double quote (")

Could you paste the actual code that takes the string?