Thanks for the help. The problem was that I had added white-space: nowrap; to the style to try to prevent word-wrap. Instead I should have added wrap=off to the textarea object On Thursday 14 May 2015 11:35:38 Gary Stainburn wrote: > 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"; > > > The form is: > > <form name=clientConfigForm id=clientConfigForm method=post > onsubmit='baculaClientConfigUpdate(); return false;'> > <input type=hidden name=client value='' /> > <textarea name=config wrap=off style='width: 100%; height:440px; > overflow: auto; white-space: nowrap;'></textarea> > <br /> > <input type=submit value=Update /> > </form> > > > as suggested all over the place, but in all cases, the text still appears > on one line > > On Thursday 14 May 2015 10:42:35 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); > > -- > Gary Stainburn > Group I.T. Manager > Ringways Garages > http://www.ringways.co.uk -- Gary Stainburn Group I.T. Manager Ringways Garages http://www.ringways.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org