Re: Wrapping problems

By the text's "formatting" I guess you mean line breaks? I can't imagine what else there is to format in straight text... Anyway, easy solution to this: echo nl2br($str); http://www.php.net/manual/function.nl2br.php -r3- ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul O' Connor <paul-oconnor@ardee.aibp.ie> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 11:33 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] Wrapping problems > Hi, > > I'm using PHP and MySQL to develop a knowledge base at work. > I'm kind of new to PHP. > > I have a problem in that users are asked to enter in a full description to > the knowledge base via a textarea on a form. > > This info is then stored in a field of type text. > > My problem is in displaying this text field. The text that will be entered > will be formatted, e.g. > > 1. Step 1 > 2. Step 2 > 3. Step 3 > > However, when I display the description (in a table) - the text looses it's > formatting giving > 1. Step 1 2. Step 2 3. Step3. > > I've tried to use the <PRE> tag in the table generated by my PHP code but > that results in the table growing as wide as the longest line of text > instead of wrapping within the confines of the table. > > I've tried specifing a % width on my generated table but this doesn't work > either. > > Any clues? > > Paul O' Connor. > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net