databasically // Kansas City Small Business IT && Ruby on Rails Programming » Ajax http://databasically.com Kansas City Small Business IT Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:35:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Updating textarea with Ajax: unterminated string literal http://databasically.com/2009/03/18/updating-textarea-with-ajax-unterminated-string-literal/ http://databasically.com/2009/03/18/updating-textarea-with-ajax-unterminated-string-literal/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:04:01 +0000 Wes http://www.databasically.com/?p=98 If you try to update a textarea with newlines in it via Ajax, you may get an “Unterminated string literal” error. The update coming back may look like this:

$('textarea_to_update').value='line one
line two
line three';

This will fail because the javascript will interpret the newline as the end of the command.

So, replace those newlines with the newline character and the textarea will get updated correctly:

textarea_value.gsub!(/\n/, '\n')
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