How to add new line breaks in textarea using Javascript ?

Would you please give me advice how to dynamically insert a new lines in textarea ? I tried to add <br /> and later \n but it doesn't work.

posted on 21.06.2019 at 19:23

onefive

Hi,

To dynamically add new line break into textarea with javascript, you can use escaped \n or \r\n:

\\n

\\r\\n

Code could look like:

document.getElementById('text').value='Hello\\r\\n\\r\\nThe content...';

posted on 24.06.2019 at 19:02

Tim