Comments on: Line Breaks, Carriage Returns from PHP to Javascript to HTML

By: Reita Hevia

Reita Hevia — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:27:10 +0000

Awesome! What a great reading!

By: beerwin

beerwin — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:21:46 +0000

Hi there,

This code is fine, it works well under Windows

When it’s about Linux, you have to replace the LF(line feed) character, and drop the CR(Carriage Return) one.

As i know MacOs uses carriage return as new line character, so you should do this by checking which OS PHP is running on.

By: Urilla

Urilla — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:03:50 +0000

Great work.

By: Jeroen Haan

Jeroen Haan — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:23:40 +0000

$escaped_value = str_replace(chr(10),’\n’,$_POST['comments']);
$escaped_value = str_replace(chr(13),’\r’,$escaped_value);
?>
window.onload = function()
{
checkForm();
}
function checkForm()
{
document.getElementById(‘comments’).innerHTML = ‘ ?>’;
}

By: Jeroen Haan

Jeroen Haan — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:19:11 +0000

I couldn’t get the code to work while working with the output of a form and pushing it back to the textarea with help of javascript, but this works for me:

Now in javascript do this:
function checkForm()
{
document.getElementById(‘escaped_value’).innerHTML = ”;
}
window.onload = function()
{
checkForm();
}

Note that Firefox respects the new lines and Explorer 7 displays spaces.
Maybe someone can shed some light on that?

cheers,
Jeroen ad haan.net