Question

Line breaks and carriage returns… Must be the most complicated part of coding. (for me)

Have this code in a page (which came from database stored as This from Ricardo\nAnd also a test\nRent 3000.00):

<td title="This from Ricard
And also a test
Rent 3000.00" style="width:198px;text-align:left">....</td>

Then use this to get the title attribute with ‘hidden’ \n’s

var v = $('#'+i).parent().attr('title');        // i = id of <span> child of <td>

Along the way, the line breaks get lost and using the variable v into a text input box:

This from RicardAnd also a testRent 3000.00

What does it take to preserve the \n's and have this look instead like below?

Answer 1

The line breaks are still there, it is just that the browser tries to render them.

If you still want to see the “\n” try this:

var v = $('td:first-of-type').attr('title').replace(/\n/g, "\\n");

Else, if what you want is NOT to see the “\n” and instead see the line breaks, you could do it this way:

var v = $('td:first-of-type').attr('title').replace(/\n/g, "<br/>");

Check this JSBin