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Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>)

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On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 12:49:32 PM UTC-5, Cybercode wrote:
> Evertjan. <> wrote:
> > justaguy <> wrote on 01 Dec 2016 in 
> > comp.lang.javascript:
> > 
> >>  turn js line breaks inside HTML Textarea tag into HTML line breaks, <br/>
> > 
> > <br/> is NOT HTML, but XML. Why should you use that?????????
> > 
> > <br> is HTML.
> 
> "A Self-closing tag is a special form of start tag with a slash immediately before the closing right angle bracket. These indicate that the
> element is to be closed immediately, and has no content. Where this syntax is permitted and used, the end tag must be omitted. In HTML,
> the use of this syntax is restricted to void elements and foreign elements. If it is used for other elements, it is treated as a start
> tag. In XHTML, it is possible for any element to use this syntax. But note that it is only conforming for elements with content models
> that permit them to be empty."
> - https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/
> 
> I think that this means that <br/> is valid in html5.

Great, thank you.

Btw, my js code works across board now (for all the Textarea elements in the page), previously I forgot to give one Textarea element an ID.

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Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 19:15 -0800
  Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-12-01 10:51 +0100
    Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 05:55 -0800
      Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 05:59 -0800
      Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-12-01 16:41 +0100
    Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) Cybercode <lambda@dr.com> - 2016-12-01 17:49 +0000
      Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 13:09 -0800
      Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-12-01 23:13 +0100
        Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) rmmjr@rmmillerjr.com - 2016-12-11 07:10 -0800
          Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-12-11 16:53 +0100
        Re: Replacing javascript line break (\n) with HTML line break (<br/>) rmmjr@rmmillerjr.com - 2016-12-11 07:10 -0800

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