Replace all spaces and newline when you have a ↵ symbol in your text variable

Asked Dec 06 '15 at 20:48

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I want to replace all space and newline in a textarea with a symbol.

In my html, I have a textarea as below:

<textarea name="messageToPost"  wrap="hard" id="messageToPost" class="form-control"
rows="5" placeholder="Your post description here"></textarea>

Then, I added Javascript to get the value of the text area.

I use this code to get the value of the textarea : $("#messageToPost").val()

Now, Lets get back on the browser, I typed the text below exactly in the textarea:

Test
New Line 
Again New Line

In my javascript, when I use Inpect element in chrome, I get this value

Test↵New line ↵Again New Line

I don't know why I get this symbol ↵. I tried to use function replace to replace the ↵ symbol but in vain.

Also I try to replace it with /\s+/g.

What I want to do is, replace all spaces in my textarea value using javascript with '%20' and new line with '%0A'

asked Dec 06 '15 at 20:48

Umeir Hussy

Try `val.split(/\r\n|\r|\n/g).join("%0A")` – mplungjan Dec 06 '15 at 20:53
I typed as is below: test new line test Again New line Used text.replace (/[\r\n\s]+/g, '%0A') Output text = "test↵new line test↵Again New line" – Umeir Hussy Dec 06 '15 at 20:59
I changed the regex. Perhaps you did not see that? – mplungjan Dec 07 '15 at 03:22

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