Help!!! How to get data in a TextBox

[thanawala27]

Hi,

I needed some help here.
I have variable which has the following data
var = "User:abc, <br>Date:06/15/07,<br>Comments: EVERYTHING IS FINE"

i tried to put the value of 'var' in a text area n it comes in the same manner i.e. "User:abc, <br>Date:06/15/07,<br>Comments: EVERYTHING IS FINE "
instead i want it to be like this

User:abc
Date:06/15/07
Comments: EVERYTHING IS FINE


i want <br> to be taken as a newline character. or some other way to display things the way i mentioned above.
In the above example, I'm able to seperate the values which are seperated by comma. So thats not the problem.

Pleease reply

Any help is appreciated.

Ravi

[drhowarddrfine]

That'll never happen. By 'textbox' I assume you mean <textarea> and the contents of that will always be text only.

[thanawala27]

hey i got a solution to this problem

i changed the value of the variable
var = "User:abc, \nDate:06/15/07,\nComments: EVERYTHING IS FINE"

i replaced <br> by \n, and it displays the way i wanted

User:abc
Date:06/15/07
Comments: EVERYTHING IS FINE"

n yes, I wanted everything to be displayed in the Textarea.
so, from this we can conclude, the textarea considers '\n' as a new line character but takes '<br>' as a text only


Thanks all

Ravi

That'll never happen. By 'textbox' I assume you mean <textarea> and the contents of that will always be text only.

[drhowarddrfine]

No, this is a translation by javascript and not the textarea.