jQuery textarea append newline behavior

jquery textarea newline append behavior

Not sure how you are setting the textarea content, but if you use the jQuery val method, \n works consistently in Firefox and IE (Including IE8):

var txt = $("textarea#idhere");txt.val( txt.val() + "\nSomething here\n\nAgain");

Causes the textarea to display:

Existing content
and linebreaks if any.
Something here
Again

You can see a demo here that works in FF and IE8: Demo | Source

jquery textarea newline append behavior

Does pressing the [enter] key cause a new line in IE8 for you? You may have to do what the answer to this question suggests: enter does not work in textarea in Internet Explorer 8

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