javascript error in text editor

**Divya** · 08-03-2009, 11:56 PM

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function append(){
	var a = document.getElementById("fname").value
	var b = document.getElementById("lname").value
	document.getElementById("nameval").value=a+'\n'+b;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="samp" method="post">
First Name:<input type="text" name="fname" id="fname"/>
Last Name:<input type="text" name="lname" id="lname"/>
Show Name:
<textarea cols="30" rows="6" id="nameval" name="nameval" onfocus="append();"></textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>

in the above code, if i use a text editor in place of text area the append function is not working. Please help me in this issue.