jQuery textarea append newline behavior
append, behavior, jquery, newline, textarea
Solution
Not sure how you are setting the textarea content, but if you use the jQuery `val` method, `\n` works consistently in Firefox and IE (Including IE8):
var txt = $("textarea#idhere");
txt.val( txt.val() + "\nSomething here\n\nAgain");
Causes the textarea to display:
Existing content and linebreaks if any. Something here
Again
You can see a demo here that works in FF and IE8: Demo | Source
Problem
I'm trying to append a strings which end in newlines to a textarea using jQuery. However, different newline tokens show different behavior in Firefox3.5 and IE8, and I can't seem to find a way to use something that works for both browsers. - `\n` works in FF but not in IE - `<br/>` and `\r\n` work in IE but not in FF - No luck using `<pre></pre>` tags either I've seen info on the IE innerHTML issue but I'm not exactly sure how to best approach this problem in jQuery. Thanks for any help!