Replacing newline character in javascript

Question

I am trying to replaces instances of \r or \n characters in my json object with <br /> for display on a website.

I tried:

myString = myString.replace("\\r?\\n", "<br />"); 

But this doesn't seem to do anything. When I replace the regex with something else (like "a" for instance, the replace works as expected). Any ideas why this isn't working for the newline chars?

Answer 1

Try this:

myString = myString.replace(/[\r\n]/g, "<br />"); 

Update: As told by Pointy on the comment below, this would replace a squence of \r\n with two <br />, the correct regex should be:

myString = myString.replace(/\r?\n/g, "<br />");