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Asked: 2026-05-23T10:07:39+00:00

I’m loading an XML file with ajax, dynamically writing/reading values to/from HTML form textareas

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I’m loading an XML file with ajax, dynamically writing/reading values to/from HTML form textareas using jQuery, and then saving back to an XML file by passing it to a PHP-write function on a form submit.

What I’m looking for is a consistent way to handle line-breaks and paragraphs across HTML/jQuery/XML- Something where users would see actual line-breaks, not code, in html and form fields.

Up until now I’ve been using <br/> tags in CData fields in XML, but these show up in form fields, and jQuery is making a mess of my CData writes.

Any good ideas? Thanks-

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you use actual return characters in the text, then in order to make them show up when displaying as HTML, you could set the css property white-space:pre or white-space:pre-line.

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