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Aug 21.2011

only have test one browser – Mozilla – but have the impression, that newlines when setting innerHTML doesn’t go down very well with the browser. Is this sufficient for causing a hard crash or at least an exception? Can anyone verify that? (Just a guess now at the moment)

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@DracoMerestAug 21.2011 — Crashing through an exception thrown by EOL character(s)? Very improbable but not impossible.

To answer you implied question, yes, different browsers have different 'newline' characters.

regExp characters are r for carriage return and n for line feed.

This is %0D and %0A respectively when using txtStr.escape("rn");

IE uses rn as does Opera.

FF and a few others use n only.

Using unescape("%0D%0A") should work in most instances.

One trick is to have a hidden TEXTAREA with a single 'newline' in it.

<textarea id="crlfChar" cols=4 rows=4>

</textarea>

Create a global variable from this:

var crlf=escape(document.getElementById("crlfChar").value);
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