remove CR and LF

   function escapeVal(data,replaceWith){
   //textarea is reference to that object, replaceWith is string that will replace the encoded return
   data = escape(data) //encode textarea string's carriage returns
   alert(data);   
   for(i=0; i   //loop through string, replacing carriage return encoding with HTML break tag
   
    if(data.indexOf("%0D%0A") > -1){
     //alert("1 ");
    //Windows encodes returns as \r\n hex
     data=data.replace("%0D%0A",replaceWith)
    }
    else if(data.indexOf("%0A") > -1){
          //alert("2 ");
  //   Unix encodes returns as \n hex
     data=data.replace("%0A",replaceWith)
    }
    else if(data.indexOf("%0D") > -1){
     //alert("3 ");     
     //Macintosh encodes returns as \r hex
     data=data.replace("%0D",replaceWith)
    } else if(data.indexOf("%20") > -1) {
     //replace space
     data=data.replace("%20"," ")
    }
   
   }
   
    data=unescape(data) //unescape all other encoded characters
    alert(data);
    return data;
   }