are the newlines being removed by jquery? try <pre> or <xmp> tags?
if you use firebug to view the dynamic data in the span tag, does it display newlines in there? rob On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings all, > > Working on the JS/jQuery this rainy Sunday afternoon. I've trying to > capture submit on a form and update a span on the page with the value > from the textarea. The mechanics of submit intercept and updating the > field is somewhat trivial. What I've having trouble with is the > formatting of the span. The value of the span when the page is loaded > may contain 1-n number of paragraphs. When the user submits the form > when I update the span via jQuery text() or html() I loose all > formatting. In other words no breaks on the paragraphs. I've even > tried adding some nl2br JS code I found but this just puts the <br /> > code into the span but it doesn't get rendered by the browser. > > Sadly this is part of a large plugin I'm working on so can't really > provide sample code. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. > > Paul > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
