jQuery textarea value doesn't convert line breaks
jquery, line-breaks, textarea
Solution
You need to use the HTML character entity for line break within an HTML property: ` `
var html = 'this\ntest';
var div = $('#test').data('message');
$('#textarea').val(html);
$('#textarea2').val(div);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="test" data-message="this test"></div>
<textarea id="textarea"></textarea>
<textarea id="textarea2"></textarea>
Problem
When adding a string, set in JavaScript, to a textarea value, it seems to convert line breaks fine. However, when grabbing this string from a data attribute, it seems to leave the line breaks as \n These both have type of string so I am confused how one works but not the other. How can I grab the data attribute and make the line breaks work with a textarea? ``` <div id="test" data-message="this\ntest"></div> <textarea id="textarea"></textarea> <textarea id="textarea2"></textarea> ``` ``` var html = 'this\ntest'; var div = $('#test').data('message'); $('#textarea').val(html); $('#textarea2').val(div); ``` JSFiddle Example