Post newline/carriage return as hidden field value

Question

I need to post multi-line data via a hidden field. The data will be viewed in a textarea after post. How can I post a newline/carriage return in the html form?

I've tried \r\n but that just posts the actual "\r\n" data

<input type="hidden" name="multiline_data" value="line one\r\nline two" />

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Depends on the character set really but 
 should be linefeed and 
 should be carriage return. You should be able to use those in the value attribute.