Populate textarea with Multiple Newlines

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm having trouble pre-populationg textarea with content that has multiple newlines. It seems to be treating two \n characters as one \n character. In fact I believe we have a \r\n\r\n but for some reason the text area is not showing me the extra new line.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

<textarea name="content"><%= @content %></textarea>

where @content is:

This is paragraph one

This is paragraph two

This is paragraph three

The textarea will show:

This is paragraph one This is paragraph two This is paragraph three

Somehow it's ignoring the multiple line breaks.

Thanks!

2

I'd like to bump this one -- I've googled and every answer I find wants to install some text formatting plugin or use a bunch of JS to fix it -- blech!

In Lasso, this just worked. textarea->MySQL->webpage just plain worked. I've monkeyed with various regex tweaks, with and without h(), and somehow Ruby or Rails just wants to screw this up.

-- gw

-kinetic wrote:

3

Which browser(s) are you using. Works fine for me in Safari 3.1.1.

~ Mark

4

Ah, geeeeeezzzzz. I was using '\n' instead of "\n" in some validation parsing.

self.moron!

-- gw