HTML Textarea removing Carriage Returns

Hi,
Hoping someone can assist, I am retrieving some data from a table that currently consists of carriage returns but when I try and retrieve this information via Ajax and pass it back into the HTML page textarea field within ApEx, the value returned is one continuous string.
All my carriage returns are removed.
Can someone please assist, possibly using a javascript solution or some other type as to how I can preserve the carriage returns.
Thanks.
Tony.

Hi Tony,
I suspect the problem is simply due to the way HTML handles line breaks, which is to say, it generally ignores them. For example, this html:
<p>To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep;
No more; </p>would be displayed in a browser as:
To be or not to be, that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep; No more;
One way to get around this is to wrap the string in {font:Courier}<pre></pre>{font} tags; another would be to replace the carriage returns with {font:Courier}<br>{font}
Hope this helps.
tx, --Jen

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