[CLOSED] TextArea has no linebreaks

[jmcantrell]

I have a TextArea field that has multiple lines. When I go to split the .Text property by newline, I see that the text is just all the lines as a single line separated by spaces.

I'm using an up-to-date version of ext.net. Any ideas what might be wrong?

[geoffrey.mcgill]

I ran a test and was able to split the .Text value into separate lines using "\n".

[jmcantrell]

The funny thing is, I have 2 pages where I'm doing something similar. The first page works when splitting on newline, but this one doesn't.

[jmcantrell]

This sample seems to have to same problem. When I input more than one line, I only get one alert with all lines.

<script runat="server">

    Protected Sub SubmitButton_Click(sender As Object, e As DirectEventArgs)
        For Each row In TestInput.Text.Split(vbNewLine)
            Ext.Net.X.Js.Alert(row)
        Next
    End Sub

</script>

<ext:Button runat="server" Text="Submit" OnDirectClick="SubmitButton_Click" />

<ext:TextArea ID="TestInput" runat="server" />

[jmcantrell]

Ok, If I change it to .Split(vbLf) it works. That still doesn't explain why vbNewLine works on the other page.

Do TextArea controls return the text delimited by \n in all cases? It seems like the only way that the other page would work would be if the text was actually separated by \r\n.

[geoffrey.mcgill]

Ok, If I change it to .Split(vbLf) it works. That still doesn't explain why vbNewLine works on the other page.

Do TextArea controls return the text delimited by \n in all cases? It seems like the only way that the other page would work would be if the text was actually separated by \r\n.

I'm not sure. I believe this is up to the browser to determine how newline breaks are created.