Line Break on Textarea using javascript

I have a data loading page into a table with a single column of varchar(4000). When the user pastes into the textarea, there are multiple line breaks - but some of the lines are > 4000 and end up being truncated during the load process. What I would like to do is in javascript: 1) find the lines that are longer than 4000 and insert a \n so that two (or more) rows will be loaded rather than truncated.
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=80892:1 user: demo pw: demo workspace: SVK

I was trying to map the line break in a embedded field inside a paragraph. So I guess that is the reason why is not working.
To make it clear: I'm triggering the paragraphs through a MLT with the ParagraphAssembly rule and a paragraph list.
Some of these paragraph need to put some data extracted from the XML input just in the middle of the text.
I have tried the html tags line break <br/> and paragraph <p>, in the middle of the text and also in the field, but is not working, the tags are being shown instead of the line break.
Any ideas?

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Convert rows to columns and put line break in between using t-sql

Hi,
I have a table with 5 columns..and my source data looks like this..
RecordID ID    Display         AddressType   EmailAddress
   1          1      GeneratedBy       From
[email protected]
    1          1      ReceivedBy         To
[email protected]
   1         1      ReceivedBy        To
[email protected]
    2           1
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[email protected]
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[email protected]
I need t-sql to show output as..
RecordID   ID    FullDisplay
   1       1     GeneratedBy From -
[email protected] < CHAR(13) - Need Line Break here so that it goes to 2nd line>
                  ReceivedBy   To   -
[email protected] ; To -
[email protected]
   2       1      Null
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[email protected] ; From -
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                  ReceivedBy To   -
[email protected]
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AddresType field will have 3 values - "From" , "To" and Null.
In the above example, Those 7 records belongs to ID=1.
Whenever RecordID is same I want to show everything in one line with line breaks in between.
In the above example RecordID=1 has 3 rows, display it as 1 row. But Whenever 'ReceivedBy' is there for same recordID put a line break before "ReceivedBy"
create Statement:
Create Table SampleTest
(RecordID int null, ID int null , Dispplay varchar(20) null, AddressType varchar(6) null , EmailAddress Varchar(25) null)
Insert Statement:
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (1,1,'GeneratedBy','From','[email protected]')
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (1,1,'ReceivedBy','To','[email protected]')
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (1,1,'ReceivedBy','To','[email protected]')
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (2,1, Null,Null,Null)
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (3,1,'GeneratedBy','From','[email protected]')
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (3,1,'GeneratedBy','From','[email protected]')
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (3,1,'ReceivedBy','To','[email protected]')
Thanks!
sql

Try below
drop table SampleTest
GO
Create Table SampleTest
(RecordID int null, ID int null , Display varchar(20) null, AddressType varchar(6) null , EmailAddress Varchar(25) null)
--Insert Statement:
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (1,1,'GeneratedBy','From','[email protected]')
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (1,1,'ReceivedBy','To','[email protected]')
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (1,1,'ReceivedBy','To','[email protected]')
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (2,1, Null,Null,Null)
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (3,1,'GeneratedBy','From','[email protected]')
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (3,1,'GeneratedBy','From','[email protected]')
Insert into SampleTest (RecordID ,ID,Display,AddressType,EmailAddress) values (3,1,'ReceivedBy','To','[email protected]')
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select ROW_NUMBER() over(PARTITION by RecordID ,ID,Display order by EmailAddress)rno,* From SampleTest
), CTE2 as (
select RecordID ,ID,'GeneratedBy '+ STUFF(( SELECT '; From - ' + EmailAddress AS [text()]
FROM CTE1 b
WHERE
a.RecordID=b.RecordID and a.ID=b.ID and b.Display = 'GeneratedBy'
FOR XML PATH('')
), 1, 2, '' ) GeneratedBy,
'ReceivedBy '+ STUFF(( SELECT '; To - ' + EmailAddress AS [text()]
FROM CTE1 b
WHERE
a.RecordID=b.RecordID and a.ID=b.ID and b.Display = 'ReceivedBy'
FOR XML PATH('')
), 1, 2, '' ) ReceivedBy
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group by RecordID ,ID
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hey atta,
sry, i was using the  character but for some reason
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I have a page that has a 'TextArea with Character Counter' (4000 Chars) that is conditionally read only based on the users credentials (using the 'Read Only' attributes of the TextArea item).
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I will work on the required attribute to see how I might reference it. I am laughing at myself now - good luck to me in figuring it out as I was very stick-in-the-mud regarding the line break issue.
Thanks again and here is the result of the updated code:

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I need to find the text in document using grep.
find text for :
Xereptatiuria que alique volo eium qui dolupid ut
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pkahrel schrieb:
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johnp45247251, one question:
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<edit by pixxxel schubser>
Furthermore your example text is different to your screenshot. Your text is:
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And your screenshot shows:
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Normally the text should look like this:
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Hello Michael,
Thank you for your response. After doing some researching and experimenting, here's what I have found so far.
First, using an onkeypress function to alert the keycode, a chr(13) is being returned when I press the Enter key in the textarea.
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var Location = {
"--Hospital--":{ line1: " ", line2: " " },
"Bellevue Medical Center":{ line1: "2500 BMC Drive", line2: "Bellevue, NE 68123" },
"CHI Bergan Mercy":{ line1: "7500 Mercy Road", line2: "Omaha, NE 68124" },
"CHI Immanuel":{ line1: "6901 N. 72nd Street", line2: "Omaha, NE 68122" },
"CHI Lakeside":{ line1: "16901 Lakeside Hills Court", line2: "Omaha, NE 68130" },
"CHI Midlands":{ line1: "11111 S. 84th Street", line2: "Papillion, NE 68046" },
"Creighton University Medical Center":{ line1: "601 N. 30th Street", line2: "Omaha, NE 68131" },
"Nebraska Medical Center":{ line1: "4400 Emile Drive", line2: "Omaha, NE 68105" }
// some debugging code to see location names;
console.show();console.clear():
for(I in Location) {
console.println(I);
// end debugging code;
function SetFieldValues(Hospital_Name) {
    this.getField("AddLine1").value = Location[Hospital_Name].line1;
    this.getField("AddLine2").value = Location[Hospital_Name].line2;
This is not a beginners task but requires a fair amount of knowledge about the structure of objects, defining strings, and structure of arrays.
Are you sure you have all the field names correctly spelled and capitalized?
Do you get any error in the JavaScript console?
Just trying the line that defines the "Location", I get the following error:
SyntaxError: invalid property id
1:Console:Exec
undefined
All the form field in a PDF are processed by using JavaScript and any error in any script will stop JavaScript processing.
It might help to have a link to the problem form.
Make sure your brackets are properly placed and matched.
// Place all pre-population data into a single data structure
var Location = {
"--Hospital--":{ line1: " ", line2: " " },
"Bellevue Medical Center":{ line1: "2500 BMC Drive", line2: "Bellevue, NE 68123" },
"CHI Bergan Mercy":{ line1: "7500 Mercy Road", line2: "Omaha, NE 68124" },
"CHI Immanuel":{ line1: "6901 N. 72nd Street", line2: "Omaha, NE 68122" },
"CHI Lakeside":{ line1: "16901 Lakeside Hills Court", line2: "Omaha, NE 68130" },
"CHI Midlands":{ line1: "11111 S. 84th Street", line2: "Papillion, NE 68046" },
"Creighton University Medical Center":{ line1: "601 N. 30th Street", line2: "Omaha, NE 68131" },
"Nebraska Medical Center":{ line1: "4400 Emile Drive", line2: "Omaha, NE 68105" }
function SetFieldValues(Hospital_Name) {
    this.getField("AddLine1").value = Location[Hospital_Name].line1;
    this.getField("AddLine2").value = Location[Hospital_Name].line2;

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