elara — Wed, 07 Jul 1999 01:50:00 +0000

You should use the indexOf() function to detect the carriage returns. To detect newlines or carriage returns in the textarea ,use the escape sequences, "\n" and "\r" respectively.
Below is an example to detect newlines in a textarea:

var pos = document.myForm.textArea.indexOf("\n");

Have a try.
Later.

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