Forcing a carriage return in textarea

Question

I would like to start a textarea with inside a text that starts some line under the first line. Doing something like:

var myText = '\r \r \r HELLO';

doesn't work: HELLO is written on the first line, while

var myText = 'HELLO \r \r \r HELLO2';

puts correctly HELLO2 after HELLO. This means that \r is correct, but it doesn't work at the beginning of the textarea.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Don't use \r, use \n

Example: var myText = '\n \n \n HELLO';

Answer 2

Try inserting 
 into the text area.