One of the fields in use is a textarea, used for multi-line input (user copies/pastes information from one place to this box). This doesn't affect the functionality of the textarea, but can be undesirable. There are two input fields (text area) above. Copy and paste the text or code in the first textarea above and press “Remove All Newlines” button. You may not see the chars even in debugger as they will be interpreted to new lines in those displays. Question. As you press enter in the textarea a new line number will be added – … onSubmit return false not working - submit form by Javascript: Prevent typing whitespace / disable spacebar in input - Javascript: Set cookies to expire in hours, minutes, seconds - Javascript: When Enter, Backspace, Spacebar keys are pressed - Javascript You probably would expect to see the third text area in the screenshot above in which “Foo” is rendered on the second line, not the first. A new line is a new line (except in places where whitespace is collapsed, which is most of HTML, but textareas are one of the exceptions). Create a textarea with a maximum number of characters per line and a maximum number of lines: First, create a function that takes the text field and a key event as input and determines if any of the limits have been reached. The values you put in there will be shown. Allow me to explain. Placeholder is set to not break is fine. In somecases, we require to disable form submit on press enter key on text box that way user must need to press submit button. May 12, 2005 at 8:37 am #229468 Reply. This Vaadin 7.1.16 this worked even for TextAreas perfectly (for a new line in the TextArea one had to press SHIFT+ENTER), but now it seems you changed the behaviour. COLOR PICKER. The wrap attribute is used to tell the browser whether or not to add newlines when a form is submitted so that the text is wrapped at a defined width. String text = textArea.getText(); But.. Users can type something and then use the arrow keys or mouse to move the cursor back up, and this won't work anymore. Most of the time,