textarea's understanding linebreaks

[Aikon3390]

Hello,
I'm working on a messaging system and I have a textarea that has some text where I do:
var text = window.document.message.reply.value;
to get the text,

but when the other person receives the message it is all on ONE line - it doesn't recognize line-breaks at all.

A second problem arises when I manually enter in line breaks "\n" and whatever else, and the message shows up fine, except the reply button will not work - there seems to be an error in the javascript because of the linebreaks - i imagine it happens because each line of the javascript is ended with text, instead of double quotes and a semicolon.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks!

David

[Iturea]

If the whole textarea is stored in one variable then yes you will have one big string. You will need to split that string up like you see in the code below. You can then use a loop to illiterate through the array of strings and define how many words you would like per line and create your own wrap effect.

source: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/strings.html#split

var b = 'I am a JavaScript hacker.'
var temp = new Array();
temp = b.split(' ');

Now the string has been split into 5 strings that are placed in the array temp. The spaces themselves are gone.

temp[0] = 'I';
temp[1] = 'am';
temp[2] = 'a';
temp[3] = 'JavaScript';
temp[4] = 'hacker.';