Add a linebreak in an HTML text area

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How can i add a line break to the text area in a html page  i use VB net for server side coding

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If it s not vb you can use  amp  013  amp  010   ascii codes for cr lf

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You could use  r n  or System Environment NewLine

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You could use  r n  or System Environment NewLine

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In a text area  as in the form input  then just a normal line break will work    lt textarea gt  This is a text area line breaks are automatic  lt  textarea gt    If you re talking about normal text on the page  the  lt br   gt   or just  lt br gt  if using plain  ole HTML4  is a line break   However  I d say that you often don t actually want a line break  Usually  your text is seperated into paragraphs    lt p gt    This is some text  lt  p gt   lt p gt    This is some more  lt  p gt    Which is much better because it gives a clue as to how your text is structured to machines that read it  Machines that read it include screen readers for the partially sighted or blind  seperating text into paragraphs gives it a chance of being presented correctly to these users

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Add a linefeed    n   to the output    lt textarea gt Hello   Bybye lt  textarea gt    Will have a newline in it

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Here is my method made with pure PHP and CSS        PHP code        lt  php      string    the string with linebreaks        string   strtr  string array      gt    r r       gt      r   -   gt   r -        gt    And the CSS     your textarea class   style  white-space pre-wrap       You can do the same with regex  I m learning how to build regex with pregreplace using an associative array  seems to be better for adding the  n r which makes the breaks display

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Escape sequences like   n  work fine   even with text area  I passed a java string with the   n  to a html textarea  and it worked fine as it works on consoles for java

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In a text area  as in the form input  then just a normal line break will work    lt textarea gt  This is a text area line breaks are automatic  lt  textarea gt    If you re talking about normal text on the page  the  lt br   gt   or just  lt br gt  if using plain  ole HTML4  is a line break   However  I d say that you often don t actually want a line break  Usually  your text is seperated into paragraphs    lt p gt    This is some text  lt  p gt   lt p gt    This is some more  lt  p gt    Which is much better because it gives a clue as to how your text is structured to machines that read it  Machines that read it include screen readers for the partially sighted or blind  seperating text into paragraphs gives it a chance of being presented correctly to these users

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Here is my method made with pure PHP and CSS        PHP code        lt  php      string    the string with linebreaks        string   strtr  string array      gt    r r       gt      r   -   gt   r -        gt    And the CSS     your textarea class   style  white-space pre-wrap       You can do the same with regex  I m learning how to build regex with pregreplace using an associative array  seems to be better for adding the  n r which makes the breaks display

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If you re inserting text from a database or such  which one usually do   convert all   lt br   gt   s to  amp vbCrLf  Works great for me

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Add a linefeed    n   to the output    lt textarea gt Hello   Bybye lt  textarea gt    Will have a newline in it

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I believe this will work   TextArea Text    Line 1   amp  vbCrLf  amp   Line 2    System Environment NewLine could be used in place of vbCrLf if you wanted to be a little less VB6 about it

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If you re inserting text from a database or such  which one usually do   convert all   lt br   gt   s to  amp vbCrLf  Works great for me

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You could use  r n  or System Environment NewLine

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Add a linefeed    n   to the output    lt textarea gt Hello   Bybye lt  textarea gt    Will have a newline in it

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You could use  r n  or System Environment NewLine

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Escape sequences like   n  work fine   even with text area  I passed a java string with the   n  to a html textarea  and it worked fine as it works on consoles for java

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I believe this will work   TextArea Text    Line 1   amp  vbCrLf  amp   Line 2    System Environment NewLine could be used in place of vbCrLf if you wanted to be a little less VB6 about it

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In a text area  as in the form input  then just a normal line break will work    lt textarea gt  This is a text area line breaks are automatic  lt  textarea gt    If you re talking about normal text on the page  the  lt br   gt   or just  lt br gt  if using plain  ole HTML4  is a line break   However  I d say that you often don t actually want a line break  Usually  your text is seperated into paragraphs    lt p gt    This is some text  lt  p gt   lt p gt    This is some more  lt  p gt    Which is much better because it gives a clue as to how your text is structured to machines that read it  Machines that read it include screen readers for the partially sighted or blind  seperating text into paragraphs gives it a chance of being presented correctly to these users

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I believe this will work   TextArea Text    Line 1   amp  vbCrLf  amp   Line 2    System Environment NewLine could be used in place of vbCrLf if you wanted to be a little less VB6 about it

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I believe this will work   TextArea Text    Line 1   amp  vbCrLf  amp   Line 2    System Environment NewLine could be used in place of vbCrLf if you wanted to be a little less VB6 about it

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If you re inserting text from a database or such  which one usually do   convert all   lt br   gt   s to  amp vbCrLf  Works great for me

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In a text area  as in the form input  then just a normal line break will work    lt textarea gt  This is a text area line breaks are automatic  lt  textarea gt    If you re talking about normal text on the page  the  lt br   gt   or just  lt br gt  if using plain  ole HTML4  is a line break   However  I d say that you often don t actually want a line break  Usually  your text is seperated into paragraphs    lt p gt    This is some text  lt  p gt   lt p gt    This is some more  lt  p gt    Which is much better because it gives a clue as to how your text is structured to machines that read it  Machines that read it include screen readers for the partially sighted or blind  seperating text into paragraphs gives it a chance of being presented correctly to these users

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If you re inserting text from a database or such  which one usually do   convert all   lt br   gt   s to  amp vbCrLf  Works great for me

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Add a linefeed    n   to the output    lt textarea gt Hello   Bybye lt  textarea gt    Will have a newline in it

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