In an effort to clean up strings of characters which might contain HTML entity characters, I am running the strings through jQuery's .text() and .html() methods. However, doing so mangles newline characters in the text in IE. The following is a test case:

var pretext = "\\r\\nLine 1\\r\\n\\r\\nLine2\\r\\n\\r\\n--- Line 3 ---\\r\\n\\r\\nLine 4\\r\\n";

alert(pretext);

var text = jQuery("#someid").text(pretext).html();

alert(text);

In Firefox and Chrome, the strings pretext and text display identically. In Internet Explorer, text displays with no new line characters. I have been unable to verify whether this is a different behavior of IE versus the other browsers or whether this is a jQuery quirk.