How can I get a new line in a textarea?
<p>I have a textarea that I need to put a new line into with some dashes above. I have tried nl2br but that just echos the <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> tag. I have also tried to concat the <code>\n</code> but it is ignored.</p>

<p>What this is for is an email like system. When the user replies to an email, I want the old message below with a seperator like a few dashes. I can't get this to work though.</p>

<pre><code>new message starts here

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old message here
</code></pre>

<p>Can someone please give a hand?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>
