Replace Line Break and Spaces on Text Area using java script !

A simple way to replace line break and spaces on a text area content can be done simply by replacing the line break value and the space value with the corresponding html tag as following .

function replaceLineBreaksAndSpaces(textValue) {
   textValue = replaceSpaceCharacter(replaceLineBreak(textValue));
   return textValue;
}
   
function replaceLineBreak(textValue) {

    textValue = textValue.replace(/\r?\n/g, '  <br />');
    return textValue;

}

function replaceSpaceCharacter(textValue) {

    textValue = textValue.replace(/  /g, ' &nbsp;');
    return textValue;
}