Question

I have to use textarea.value text but it does not preserve line breaks as input by the user. I don’t want to use replace(/\n\r?/g, '<br />') trick as it is useful only to render text as html.

Is there any other way to access textarea.value as it is?

Answer 1

In this example http://jsfiddle.net/jfriend00/Gy7W3/, the text area is returning a linefeed character on the .value property everywhere the user enters a line break so it seems to already do what you want.