Replace line break

[johnrb87]

Hi

 

I have a HTML form which contains a textarea field where the user can enter text.

 

When they click the form button I run the following javascript;

 

var description = document.getElementById('description').value;

 

I then pass this variable through a AJAX function, like

 

ajax('http://localhost/save.php?title='+title+'&description='+description+'');

 

This all works fine, apart from when you enter some text in the textarea field and use the return key.

 

My question is, how within

 

var description = document.getElementById('description').value;

 

can I tell it to replace line breaks with "<br>"

 

I know I need to add something like;

 

description.replace("\r","<br>")

 

but I can't figure out how to tie them together

[johnrb87]

solved it