358461 - Javascript remove line breaks from textarea when submitting data via AJAX

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Dimas Yusuf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

The contents of a textarea may contain line breaks. When the contents of a textarea is placed into a Javascript variable and this variable is passed into a Perl script, all the line breaks disappear.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an AJAX-style function designed to pass the values of a textarea into a server-side script
2. Type text into the textarea, adding line breaks, and then submit it
3. Observe that the text received by the server-side script no longer contains any line breaks.

Actual Results:  
Line breaks seemed to be removed by Firefox's Javascript component.

Expected Results:  
Line breaks should be preserved. When Safari is used, the line breaks were preserved.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!