Text formating in HTML - Text area

[Sri Anand]

I have a webpage where user enters long text in text field, after few UI interatctions(workflow) I take the text and dislplay this a string, I am facing a problem that text doesnt appear same as was entered instead appears as long text I tried <pre> tag but it didnt help much.

I am usign only HTML and Javascript and nothing else

[Eric Pascarello]

Basic idea:

var strOut = myStr.replace(/\n/gi,"<br/>");

Eric

[Sri Anand]

Thanks for the reply,
this helped me, I have one more problem I have 2 text areas in my form after i fill in my form, i have a print view (not print preview of browser)where i show only selected html fields(check boxes etc.,) in this view i show the content entered in text area in a div hiding textarea i make use of <pre> tag to show in the same way it was entered however the font of the text taken from textarea is smaller and different i tried using <font> tag but didnt help any suggesting over this

[ August 27, 2007: Message edited by: Raghunandan Mamidala ]
[ August 27, 2007: Message edited by: Raghunandan Mamidala ]

[Sri Anand]

I found a solution posting it here may be someone else can save time if they come across similar situation

function decorateText(text){
var splitString=text.split("\n");
var FormattedText="";
if(splitString.length>0){
for(i=0;i<splitString.length;i++){
if(splitString[i].length>179){
splitString[i]="<wbr>" + splitString[i] +"</wbr>";
}
FormattedText=FormattedText + splitString[i] + "<br>";
}
}else{
FormattedText="<wbr>" + myStr + "</wbr>"
}
return FormattedText;
}