Question

I have a HTML <textarea> that I want to be able to make when the user pushes enter in the textarea it results in a linebreak when the string is stored in a variable and printed on the page.

How would I do this? I have seen it done before but I am not sure how to do it.

Answer 1

When you read the content of textarea just do this:

var text = document.getElementById(textAreaId).value.replace("\n","<br/>");

By this way, when you use the variable text, it will be able to break lines in html.