jquery :Find the new line character and replace it with <br> [closed]

Question

In my page one of the table column has the html like below

My world Logistics,\n Hamburg Industriestrasse \n 21107 Megas Sorter HH India

wherever there is \n i need to replace it withe html tag <br>

How can do it in Jquery, javascript?

possible duplicate of How replace HTML <br> with newline character "\n" — nkmol
– nkmol, Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 11:12

Monika · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-22 11:11:23Z

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<script> var messagetoSend = document.getElementById('x').value.replace(/\n/g, "<br />"); alert(messagetoSend); </script>

X is the table name.

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 11:11

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var messagetoSend = document.getElementById('x').innerHTML.replace(/\\n/g, "<br />");