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HTML
<textarea id="inputtext" style="height:100px"></textarea>
<button id="show">show in div</button>
<div id="showtext">
</div>
CSS
#showtext {
white-space: pre-wrap;
}
JavaScript
$(function(){
$('#show').on('click',function(){
var text = $.trim($('#inputtext').val());
$('#showtext').text(text);
});
});