Ampersand line break?

format a line break inside a textarea

[McIntyre]

Is there an ampersand version of "<br>" (i.e. &nbsp, &quot, etc)? I have this JavaScript to make a textarea read
Heading:
Blah blah.

text1.value="Heading:<br>Blah blah."

but the textarea displays "<br>" as part of the text. If there was something like "&break" I could have

text1.value="Heading:&breakBlah blah.".

[gph]

\n

[McIntyre]

great. Thanks

[McIntyre]

It doesn't work.

[McIntyre]

Oh, now it does. "\" wrong way around.

[DrDoc]

&#13; should work too :)