Question

my coding:

 ...
 <textarea name="TextArea1" id="TextArea" style="height ; width" ></textarea>
 ...
 <script type="text/javascript">
 var txt_element = document.getElementById("TextArea");
 document.write (txt_element.childNodes[0].nodeValue);
 </script>
 ...

but it doesn’t recognize “enter/return” key hited instead it shows ” “

Many thanks

Answer 1

Text areas use \n to designate a new line, something along these lines should work:

string = document.getElementById("TextArea")childNodes[0].nodeValue;
string = string.replace(/\n/g, '<br />');
document.write('string');

Not sure if you’re just goofing around, but I feel compelled to mention that generally speaking you should never use document.write().