This is a complicated one! Im working with contentEditable in Chrome and I'm experiencing a head melting problem. When I press the return key, Chrome inserts a new div into the innerHTML. This is fine and dandy. The problem is that the line break is nowhere to be found in the div's textContent. I really need to figure out a way to add the line break to the textContent in the same place as the div break in the innerHTML.

Any Ideas?

UPDATE:

I can use innerText but then line breaks that are there when the page loads are ignored. I need consistency across one of these methods. In other words, I need textContent to show newly inputted line breaks or innerText to show line breaks that existed on page load.

Here's an updated demo:

function checkit() {

  var c1 = document.getElementById('c1')

  alert(TEXTCONTENT:n + c1.textContent + nnINNERTEXT:n + c1.innerText + nnINNERHTML:n + c1.innerHTML)

}

div {padding: 20px; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCC;}

<div><a href=# onclick=checkit()>check it</a></div>



<div contentEditable=true id=c1>click inside this <b>div</b>,

press return and then press <b>check it</b> above</div>