How to read line by line of a text area HTML tag

I have a text area where each line contains Integer value like follows

      1234
      4321
     123445

I want to check if the user has really enetered valid values and not some funny values like follows

      1234,
      987l;

For that I need to read line by line of text area and validate that. How can i read line by line of a text area using javascript?

Try this.

var lines = $('textarea').val().split('\n');
for(var i = 0;i < lines.length;i++){
    //code here using lines[i] which will give you each line
}

This works without needing jQuery:

var textArea = document.getElementById("my-text-area");
var arrayOfLines = textArea.value.split("\n"); // arrayOfLines is array where every element is string of one line

This would give you all valid numeric values in lines. You can change the loop to validate, strip out invalid characters, etc - whichever you want.

var lines = [];
$('#my_textarea_selector').val().split("\n").each(function ()
{
    if (parseInt($(this) != 'NaN')
        lines[] = parseInt($(this));
}

Two options: no JQuery required, or JQuery version

No JQuery (or anything else required)

var textArea = document.getElementById('myTextAreaId');
var lines = textArea.value.split('\n');    // lines is an array of strings

// Loop through all lines
for (var j = 0; j < lines.length; j++) {
  console.log('Line ' + j + ' is ' + lines[j])
}

JQuery version

var lines = $('#myTextAreaId').val().split('\n');   // lines is an array of strings

// Loop through all lines
for (var j = 0; j < lines.length; j++) {
  console.log('Line ' + j + ' is ' + lines[j])
}

Side note, if you prefer forEach a sample loop is

lines.forEach(function(line) {
  console.log('Line is ' + line)
})