New line in text area

html textarea line-breaks
discky picture discky · Dec 25, 2011 · Viewed 646k times · Source 
<textarea cols='60' rows='8'>This is my statement one.\n This is my statement2</textarea>

<textarea cols='60' rows='8'>This is my statement one.<br/> This is my statement2</textarea>

I tried both but new line is not reflecting while rendering the html file. How can I do that?

Answer

Bakudan picture Bakudan · Dec 25, 2011

Try this one:

    <textarea cols='60' rows='8'>This is my statement one.&#13;&#10;This is my statement2</textarea>

&#10; Line Feed and &#13; Carriage Return are HTML entitieswikipedia. This way you are actually parsing the new line ("\n") rather than displaying it as text.

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