Get plain text from a content div

Question

Is it possible to extract plain text from a contenteditable div, including newlines? The jQuery $ .text () method removes the new lines that I need. The solution may use jQuery.

Answer 1

With a bit of tweaking, https://github.com/vorushin/jsHtmlToText was exactly what I needed.

Answer 2

innerText textContent ( ). textContent , IE 6-8, innerText.

var text = x.innerText || x.textContent

http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_html.html#t07

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Answer 3

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