Help with .replace

[danp129]

For some reason on line 5 newtext is getting changed to "newt ext" when I preview this post, it is not that way in actual code!

I can't figure out why it's not replacing carraige returns with "<BR>". alert(newtext) doesn't show any replacement taking place.

<script>
function preview(newtext) {
    newtext.replace(/\r|\n|\r\n/g,"<br>");
    newtext.replace(/  /, " &nbsp;")
    document.getElementById('motdtext').innerHTML=newtext;
}
</script>
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td><font class="content"><TEXTAREA onkeyup="preview(this.innerText);" style="overflow:auto;" COLS=23 ROWS=20 NAME="gmotdtext">Line1
Line2
Line3
 
Line5</TEXTAREA></td>
<td id=motdtext>Line1<br>Line2<br>Line3<br><br>Line5</td>
</tr>
</table>

[danp129]

Nevermind I got it all working now.