[Wylug-help] Javascript / AJAX / Textarea problem

[Gary Stainburn]

I've simplified this to:

form.config.value="mary\r\nhad\r\na\r\nlittle\r\nlamb";
form.config.value="mary\nhad\na\nlittle\nlamb";
form.config.value="mary<br />had<br />a<br />little<br />lamb";

as suggested all over the place, but in all cases, the text still appears on 
one line


On Thursday 14 May 2015 10:41:35 Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> At some point the following code stopped working properly, but I don't know
> when.
>
> Now when I try it, both on Firefox and IE all of the text appears on the
> first line. I've checked the source text and it has newline characters
> (I've also changed them to CRLF which made no change).
>
> When I update form.config.value the contents are correct and contain the \n
> when inspected using FireBug, but they appear wrong with everything on one
> line.
>
> Anyone got a clue how to fix this for both Firefox and IE.  I've found
> loads of stuff on Google, except the answer
>
> Gary
>
>   AjaxRequest("/hardware/ajax"+debug+".html?baculaClientConfig="+name,
>      function(xmlHttp) {
>        if(xmlHttp.readyState==4) {
>          var form = document.getElementById("clientConfigForm");
>          if (form)
>            form.config.value=xmlHttp.responseText;
>        }
>      },false);
>
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-- 
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk