jQuery textarea append newline 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 … Read more

Textarea value not getting posted with form

try to put it inside the form tag as follows… it should work <form action=”sendConfirmation.php” name=”confirmationForm” method=”post”> <textarea id=”confirmationText” class=”text” cols=”86″ rows =”20″ name=”confirmationText”></textarea> <input type=”submit” value=”Email” class=”submitButton”> </form> however you can use the same approach as well but you need to provide the from id attribute then <form action=”sendConfirmation.php” id=”confirmationForm” method=”post”> <input type=”submit” value=”Email” … Read more

Get value from text area [duplicate]

Vanilla JS document.getElementById(“textareaID”).value jQuery $(“#textareaID”).val() Cannot do the other way round (it’s always good to know what you’re doing) document.getElementById(“textareaID”).value() // –> TypeError: Property ‘value’ of object #<HTMLTextAreaElement> is not a function jQuery: $(“#textareaID”).value // –> undefined

CSS Styling text areas like notebook-look

Here’s probably what you looking for: <style type=”text/css”> textarea { background: url(http://i.stack.imgur.com/ynxjD.png) repeat-y; width: 600px; height: 300px; font: normal 14px verdana; line-height: 25px; padding: 2px 10px; border: solid 1px #ddd; } </style> <textarea> Textarea with style example Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 Line 6 Line 7 Line n </textarea> Or … Read more

Get the offset position of the caret in a textarea in pixels [duplicate]

You can create a separate (invisible) element and fill it with textarea content from start to the cursor position. Textarea and the “clone” should have matching CSS (font properties, padding/margin/border and width). Then stack these elements on top of each other. Let me start with a working example, then walk through the code: http://jsfiddle.net/g7rBk/ Updated … Read more

CSS Textarea that expands as you type text [duplicate]

I know this is a little bit late, but I have to say there is a way to use <div> with contenteditable attribute to simulate desired behaviour. .textareaElement { width: 300px; min-height: 17px; border: 1px solid #ccc; max-height: 150px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; } <div class=”textareaElement” contenteditable></div> Just set your min and max height, with … Read more

Set maxlength in Html Textarea [duplicate]

Before HTML5, we have an easy but workable way: Firstly set an maxlength attribute in the textarea element: <textarea maxlength=”250″ name=””></textarea> Then use JavaScript to limit user input: $(function() { $(“textarea[maxlength]”).bind(‘input propertychange’, function() { var maxLength = $(this).attr(‘maxlength’); if ($(this).val().length > maxLength) { $(this).val($(this).val().substring(0, maxLength)); } }) }); Make sure the bind both “input” and … Read more

Inserting text at cursor in a textarea, with Javascript

No, there isn’t. IE has its TextRange objects to do the job. IE >= 9 and everything else for the last long time has selectionStart and selectionEnd properties on textareas and text inputs. This particular task isn’t too bad: the following will delete the current selection (if one exists), insert text at the caret and … Read more