Inserting a newline into a pre tag (IE, Javascript)

Does this work in IE?

document.getElementById("putItHere")
    .appendChild(document.createTextNode("first line\nsecond line"));

I tested it with Firefox and it works. :-)

These quirksmode.org bug report and comments about innerHTML behaviour of Internet Explorer could help:

"IE applies HTML normalization to the data that is assigned to the innerHTML property. This causes incorrect display of whitespace in elements that ought to preserve formatting, such as <pre> and <textarea>."