create new line in <textarea>

@benjaminApr 14.2004

i have a written a code which creates an output into a textarea, the only problem is that i do not know how to write new lines in textareas using javascript

n does not work
<br> does not work
 does not work

… im running out of ideas,

any help?

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@fredmvApr 14.2004 — #The newline meta character (i.e., [font=courier]n[/font]) does indeed work.

&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
 
 &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"&gt;
 &lt;head&gt;
 &lt;title&gt;untitled&lt;/title&gt;
 &lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" /&gt;
 &lt;/head&gt;
 &lt;body&gt;
 &lt;form action="#"&gt;
 &lt;div&gt;
 &lt;textarea rows="10" cols="50"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
 &lt;a href="#" onclick="elements[0].value += 'foon';"&gt;Add another line.&lt;/a&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;/form&gt;
 &lt;/body&gt;
 &lt;/html&gt;

@benjaminauthorApr 14.2004 — #i had given the textarea an id and was using its innerHTML, that was why it was not working.

thankyou for your quick reply

@JayDieApr 14.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by benjamin [/i]

[B]i had given the textarea an id and was using its innerHTML, that was why it was not working.

thankyou for your quick reply [/B][/QUOTE]

No, that was not the problem. You can give the Textarea an ID, no problem. But if you wanted to use innerHTML, use innerText instead.

[code=php]
 <html>
 <head>
 </head>
 <body>
 <textarea id="tekst" rows="10" cols="50">test...</textarea>
 <hr />
 <a href="#" onClick="javascript: document.getElementById('tekst').value += 'TESTntestnntest'">Click to add...</a>
 </body>
 </html>
 [/code]

I red something about: 'don't use innerHTML, etc, but use nodeChild ed instead'. Can somebody tell me more about this? Why and explain so I can see 'the picture' ?

JayDie

@fredmvApr 14.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by JayDie [/i]

[B]I red something about: 'don't use innerHTML, etc, but use nodeChild ed instead'. Can somebody tell me more about this? Why and explain so I can see 'the picture'[/B][/QUOTE]http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32137

@steelersfan88Apr 14.2004 — #innerHTML is simply not DOM, as .[child].nodeValue is

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