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Asked: 2026-06-11T15:48:20+00:00

Problem : newline characters not kept by HTML form after pasting. I’m developping an

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Problem : newline characters not kept by HTML form after pasting.

I’m developping an app that does JSON format validation check. I want to paste the JSON string in the form, then thave the app check its validity using the json module from Python.

Should there be any error, the function : 

json.loads(jsonstring)

returns the line, and the column where the error is occuring. I need to retrieve the line and the number. However, pasting in my form doesn’t keep the newlines, hence everything is on line 1 …

What shall I do so that pasting in the form keeps the newlines ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer to that question is to specify the option “wrap=soft” in the textarea tag. Which gives the following : 

    <textarea "wrap=soft">
This is the text that I pasted after I copied the output of my JSON validation function. \n 
with newlines characters that are gonna be seen after I pasted it in the text field.
</textarea>
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