Textarea Accepting Text as is

[sypher]

I want to get my textarea to accept the test area as is. I'm writing a small forums script in colfudfusion, if that helps, and as of right now if you were to type this into the test area for the message:

1. Dog

2. Cat

3. fish

It would display on the forum like this:

1. Dog 2. Cat 3. fish

Can anyone help me out with getting it to display as is?

Thanks

[Khalid Ali]

javascript has \n for next line character it means nothing in html,you will have to write some code to see the new line and then enter <br/> tag