jQuery - How do you convert <br>
and <br />
and <p />
and such to new line?
Does jQuery have a built in br2nl()
function - this is for converting new lines tags to user-friendly textfield versions.
jQuery - How do you convert <br>
and <br />
and <p />
and such to new line?
Does jQuery have a built in br2nl()
function - this is for converting new lines tags to user-friendly textfield versions.
You could create a function like this:
jQuery.fn.nl2br = function(){
return this.each(function(){
jQuery(this).val().replace(/(<br>)|(<br \/>)|(<p>)|(<\/p>)/g, "\r\n");
});
};
And use it like any of these ways:
$(':input').nl2br();
$('textarea').nl2br();
$('#textarea_id').nl2br();
If you want to take a chunk of html and replace
tags and self-closing tags with newline characters, doing something like:
$('#element-containing-html-to-replace').html().replace(/(<br>)|(<p><\/p>)/g, "\n");
should return a string of the container's HTML with those tags replaced with newline characters.
You can use this code if you want to replace the html-elements itself:
$('body').find('br').replaceWith("\n");
$('body').find('p').each(function() {
$(this).replaceWith("\n" + $(this).text() + "\n");
});
Not that I know of, but you can use "\r\n"
;
EDIT:
Credits to @sAc, but updated to actual replace the value & better regexp:
jQuery.fn.nl2br = function(){
return this.each(function(){
var that = jQuery(this);
that.val(that.val().replace(/(<br\s*\/?>)|(<p><\/p>)/gi, "\r\n"));
});
};
jQuery("textarea").nl2br();