Reading value from multiline textarea with val is different to textarea.value

[capape]

Hello,

When I try to read a textarea value with $('#id').val(), and this textarea has multiline value, $('#id').val() is giving me a different value than document.getElementBy('id').value.

The effect is that when transforming \r\n to \n, and sendind data to a server, servers receive a single line instead of several lines.

I've attached a html file. This is happening with Internet Explorer and Opera. The behaviour with firefox seems to be incorrect too.

[capape]

Load the file and press button. The data in textarea is read with diferent methods, and shown with alerts.

[john]

This is an intentional change. Browsers weren't consistent about providing the \r in the retrieved value so we remove it to become consistent across all browsers.

[capape]

This breaks line separator in multiline html elements, doesn't it?

See  http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4

I openned a bug in bugzilla to firefox ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549278).

Thanks.