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Asked: 2026-05-12T07:37:51+00:00

I know how to populate a textarea, but how to populate it so that

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I know how to populate a textarea, but how to populate it so that it maintains the line breaks?

e.g

html 

    <div id="previous_purchases">blah blah blah<br />blah blah</div>

jquery

    $('#previous_purchases').click(function(){

        var what = $(this).text();

        $('#purchased').text(what);


});

All the blah’s just rock up in the textarea on one line. Any ideas?

edit: I have been trying with html() instead of text but it produces the same result. I would imagine by using the html() I would end up with a textarea that had ‘
‘ but that is not the case… its just all on one line.

Even with this code:

    $('#previous_purchases').click(function(){

        var what = $(this).html();

        $('#purchased').html(what);


});
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  1. Editorial Team

    Try doing:

        <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
    <head>
        <title></title>
        <script src="scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(
              function() {
                 $('#previous_purchases').click(function() {
                 var what = $(this).html().replace(/<br>/, '\n');
                 $('#purchased').html(what);
            });
        });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="previous_purchases">blah blah blah<br />blah blah</div>
    <textarea id="purchased" cols="25" rows="10"></textarea>
    </body>
    </html>

    See Attributes/html

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