I have tried a few approaches but none worked. Does anyone know a the nifty trick to get around this?
<textarea placeholder="This is a line \n this should be a new line"></textarea>
<textarea placeholder="This is a line
should this be a new line?"></textarea> <!-- this works in chrome apparently -->
UPDATE: It doesn’t work in chrome. It was just the textarea width.
See: http://jsfiddle.net/pdXRx/