>>I've checked this question
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>>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/863779/javascript-how-to-add-line-breaks-to-an-html-textarea
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>>What do you normally use in the interface to allow input with line breaks and correctly saving it in SQL Server?
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>>We're using TextArea and I my colleague just pointed out that line breaks are not preserved. So, I suppose we need to use something else instead of the TextArea unless we want to add some way to handle the line breaks.
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>>What do you normally use?
>
>Textarea, as is, is not HTMLed. It is just plain text. In the same as I do here, if you want to know when to add specific formatting to that content, when comes time to display, you would simply need to parse the content at runtime.
>
>So, basically, if you know the content that was saved in that field as to be displayed in HTML, then you would need to adjust accordingly at run time such as:
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>

>		' If the content is Html
>		If lHtml Then
>		Else
>			lcNotes = oApp.StrTran(lcNotes, oApp.cCR, "< br >")
>		End If
>

For now I just tested saving the content. I added a line at the top which was supposed to be a comment on a separate line. When I looked in SQL Server and copied text and pasted in Notepad++ I didn't see any line breaks.

So, it looks like we're losing them.

I want a generic solution for this problem - we may need to use a different control. But still it's strange - why would it lose the line breaks? Should we probably use Shift+Enter when we insert the text?