jquery :Find the new line character and replace it with

Question

In my page one of the table column has the html like below

My world Logistics,\n Hamburg Industriestrasse \n 21107 Megas Sorter HH India

wherever there is \n i need to replace it withe html tag <br>

How can do it in Jquery, javascript?

see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2919337/jquery-convert-line-breaks-to-br-nl2br-equivalent — Henry Florence, Nov 22 '13 at 11:12
possible duplicate of [How replace HTML
with newline character "\n"](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8062399/how-replace-html-br-with-newline-character-n) — nkmol, Nov 22 '13 at 11:12

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '13 at 11:11

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<script>
var messagetoSend = document.getElementById('x').value.replace(/\n/g, "<br />");
alert(messagetoSend);
</script>

X is the table name.

answered Nov 22 '13 at 11:11

Monika

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`var messagetoSend = document.getElementById('x').innerHTML.replace(/\\n/g, "
");` – A. Wolff Nov 22 '13 at 11:13

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