Newline in a <pre> element in internet explorer 7

Question

I have the following code in my ASP.NET MVC 3 project:

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
...    
<pre>@Html.ValidationSummary()</pre>

The validationsummary shows the errormessages that are specified in my model. And the model gets the errormessages out of a resource file..
In 1 of the errormessages I use newlines (shift + enter).

Can I fix this?

Answer 1

It's possible that the ValidationSummary() uses unix newlines (\\n) and IE only likes the Windows newlines (\\r\\n). See if you can replace \\n with \\r\\n in before displaying it.