nl2br equivalent JavaScript function

PHP provides a useful function nl2br that inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines \n in a string. Many times we want to utilize this functionality in JavaScript, although there is no nl2br equivalent JavaScript function but we can create a custom function using regular expressions. Below is JavaScript equivalent for nl2br.

function nl2br(str, is_xhtml) {

var breakTag = (is_xhtml || typeof is_xhtml === 'undefined') ? '<br />' : '<br>';
return (str + '').replace(/([^>\r\n]?)(\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n)/g, '$1' + breakTag + '$2'); }