IE - how to save space in textarea, input using javascript string

Question

FF and Chrome behave nicely, but IE (8) doesn't save a space in my formatted code, which I put in TEXTAREA

<textarea id="vdt_table_textarea" style="white-space: pre"></textarea> 

and

 var vdt_demo_table_string = '<table id="example" class="display">\n\ <thead>\n\ <tr>\n\ <th>Rendering engine</th>\n\ <th>Browser</th>\n\ <th>Platform(s)</th>\n\ <th>Engine version</th>\n\ <th>CSS grade</th>\n\ </tr>\n\ </thead>\n\ etc.... '; $(document).ready(function() { $('#vdt_table_textarea').html(vdt_demo_table_string.replace(' ', ' ')); }); 

how can i get IE to respect my authority ??

Answer 1

Not sure why your method is not working, but it does:

 $('#vdt_table_textarea').html(vdt_demo_table_string.replace(/ /g, ' ')); 

Answer 2

CSS

 textarea{ white-space:pre; } 

or

 textarea{ white-space:pre-wrap; }