convert textarea value to html content using p tags

Question

need to convert a textarea value to html content with p tags instead of new lines
this is my way - it works - but maybe there is a more native way or a predefined function to do the same

 $('button').on('click', function(){ let a = $('#tx').val(); let html = '<p>' + a.trim().replace('\\n', '</p>\\n<p>') + '</p>'; console.log(html); });

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <textarea id='tx'> lorem ipsum </textarea> <button>CLICK</button>

Answer 1

In JavaScript you can split by newline and get an array. You can map that with template interpolation to wrap tags around. Utilizing the regex /\\n+/ will ignore multiple succeeding newlines.

const text = "Hello\nWorld!\n\nHello\nmy\nfriend";
const html = text.split(/\n+/).map(e => `<p>${e}</p>\n`);

And a console.log(html); looks like this:

(5) ["<p>Hello</p>↵", "<p>World!</p>↵", "<p>Hello</p>↵", "<p>my</p>↵", "<p>friend</p>↵"]