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how can i write a string variable to an existing textarea....and maintain line breaks e.g. \r or \n

Aug 9th, 2001 01:59
Jean-Bernard Valentaten, mur nolan,

As you should know, HTML-tags are not interpreted when nested inside a 
textarea, but escape sequences (like \n) are. So when writing a 
variable to the textarea.value simply insert \n for line break.
function writeToTextarea()
{
  document.getElementById('theNameofyourTextarea').value 
= 'Hello\n\nHow are you doing?'
}
That should work (in IE5+ and NN6 at least).
HTH