textarea and multiple lines and javascript!

Discussion in 'JavaScript' started by redhits, Dec 11, 2009.

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  1. #1
    I need to add data to an textarea, via javascript
    the only problem is if i will use multiple lines in value.="" the script will fail to work !


    document.getElementById("textarea").value="domain1.com
    domain2.com
    domain3.com";
     
    redhits, Dec 11, 2009 IP
  2. s_ruben

    s_ruben Active Member

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    An example for it!!!
    
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
  <title>Textarea</title>

</head>

<body>

<textarea id="textarea" name="textarea" cols="20" rows="10"></textarea>

</body>
   <script>
        document.getElementById("textarea").value="domain1.com\n\rdomain2.com\n\rdomain3.com";
   </script>
</html>
    Code (markup):
     
    s_ruben, Dec 11, 2009 IP
  3. unigogo

    unigogo Peon

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    document.getElementById("textarea").value = "domain1.com" + "\n"
    + "domain2.com" + "\n"
    + "domain3.com";
     
    unigogo, Dec 12, 2009 IP
  4. leeann.william

    leeann.william Peon

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    In javascript you can concatenate you string by using + operator. the charcter with space also use the same concept. so try to do concatenation.
     
    leeann.william, Dec 17, 2009 IP