dojo textarea widget does not preserve line feeds in IE6

[guest]

Browser: IE6.0.2900 OS: Windows XP SP2

The textarea widget allows you to add new lines by hitting the Enter key. On submitting the form, these get Posted OK to the back-end. However, if you then re-render the textarea with a value containing new lines, IE6 does not preserve them.

ie if you have:

<div dojoType="dijit.form.Textarea" name="comments" style="width:300px">
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
</div>

This is rendered properly with line feeds in Firefox and Safari, but IE6 will show:

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3

in the textarea box.

See ​http://www.mgateway.com/php/dojo/test3.php

[bill]

How about if you use a <textarea> node to instantiate it rather than a <div>? Like:

<textarea dojoType="dijit.form.Textarea" name="comments" style="width:300px">
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
</textarea>

[guest]

<textarea> works a treat! Many thanks!

However the documentation says to use a <div> so you probably ought to change that. See:

​http://www.dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-2-dijit/form-validation-specialized-input/resizeable-text-area

[bill]

Great. OK, I just updated the book w/this info.