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JavaScript

Posted by Chris Gaona
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Chris Gaona
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 31,350 Points

Maintaining whitespace from html to textarea and back

I've been trying to figure out how to maintain the whitespace and line breaks from html to textarea and back again. I'm creating a form that needs to be editable. I haven't been able to maintain the white space when I switch the html text to a textarea form to be able to edit. This is the code I've been working with so far:

//editing individual posts
    $('button.edit-post').on('click', function() {
        var $post = $('.post-body .post-text').text();
        var $editableText = $('<form id="editable-form"><textarea rows="20" id="editable-text"></textarea><button type="submit" class="submit-edit">Update</button>');
        $('.post-body .post-text').html($editableText);
        var $editableTextValue = $('#editable-text');
        $editableTextValue.val($post.replace('<p>', /\n\r?/g));
        $editableTextValue.focus();

    $('#editable-form').on('submit', function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        var editedText = $editableTextValue.val().replace(/\n\r?/g, '<p>');
        $('.post-body .post-text').html('<p>' + editedText + '</p>');
    });
    });

Any help would be very much appreciated!