This will replace line breaks to HTML break tags. The different combinations are to cover the different browsers/systems and how line breaks are interpreted. $(this).val().replace(/\r\n|\r|\n/g,”<br />”) This will bring it back to new lines – also covering how different browsers interpret innerHTML. boxText.replace(/<br\s?\/?>/g,”\n”);
You are setting the html of #showresults of whatever data is, and then replacing it with itself, which doesn’t make much sense ? I’m guessing you where really trying to find #showresults in the returned data, and then update the #showresults element in the DOM with the html from the one from the ajax call … Read more
Take this HTML code: <div id=”mydiv”>Hello World</div> Doing: $(‘#mydiv’).html(‘Aloha World’); Will result in: <div id=”mydiv”>Aloha World</div> Doing: $(‘#mydiv’).replaceWith(‘Aloha World’); Will result in: Aloha World So html() replaces the contents of the element, while replaceWith() replaces the actual element.