Text carriage return

Question

I must allow the user to enter carriage returns in text areas; sort of:

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I have to keep these carriage returns when loading and saving data. I am using jQuery on the client side and .NET on the server. Any suggestions on how to approach?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If "persist" breaks a line ( CRLF ), you mean that you want to display it correctly, as SO does, you need to remember to replace the CRLF pair with <br/>CRLF .

Otherwise, all text will appear sequentially.

Answer 2

You do not need to do anything special. What <textarea> does, and if you don’t take much effort to highlight the newlines on the server side, you can load them with the standard string without any problems.

Answer 3

Use jQuery.val () hook :

 $.valHooks.textarea = { get: function( elem ) { return elem.value.replace( /\r?\n/g, "\r\n" ); } };