// JavaScript Document
//Mark G. 02/20/07

//call from textarea using onChange - ex: <textarea id="myText" name="myText" cols="80" rows="8" onchange="removeNewlines(this)"> be sure to include <script language="JavaScript1.2" src="/common-lib/javascript/textarea_strip.js" type="text/javascript"> in head.

function removeNewlines(myTextArea){
var tempstr = myTextArea.value;
var tempstr = tempstr.replace(/\r|\n/g, " ");
var tempstr = tempstr.replace(/\s+/g," ");
myTextArea.value=tempstr;
}