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Last active December 28, 2015 15:59
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Escape text. And make sure whitespace and line breaks are preserved. This should output the same result as a user input in a textarea. This will work in IE7 and newer, unlike whitespace: pre-wrap. Snippet is using the underscore libs escape method.
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var escapeText = _.escape(insertText),
preserveWhiteSpace = escapeText.replace(/ /g, '\u00a0'),
preserveWhiteSpaceAndLineBreaks = preserveWhiteSpace.replace(/\n/g, '<br />');
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