div ignoring line breaks

[MDanz]

I have a textarea and i am passing the text in it with javascript to a div. The problem is it is ignoring the line breaks and word wrapping.

 

Is there anyway for the div to include word wrapping and line breaks?

[Alex]

You need to convert literal line breaks, \n, into HTML line breaks, <br />. You can use the replace() method to do this.

 

document.something.innerHTML = document.yourtextarea.value.replace("\n", "<br />");

[MDanz]

thanks for this.. but it doesn't seem to be working.

 

i did this for example.

e.g.

 

test1

 

 

 

 

test5

 

 

test6

 

 

the result was in the div

 

test1

 

test5 test6

 

 

any idea why?

 

 

 

 

[haku]

Are you using php? if so, you should run the text through the nl2br() function before outputting it.