Re: Re: textarea new line

At 12:55 23.01.2003, Neil M said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >Adi wrote: >> i want to add in textarea a string with new line tag in it. how to do that? >> >> my try: >> $string="-line1n\ -line2 n\-line3"; >> echo "<br><textarea name='aria' cols='50' >> rows='2'>$string</textarea>"; >> >> but i see a single line instead of: >> -line1 >> -line2 >> -line3 --------------------[snip]-------------------- Use nl2br(), something like: echo '<textarea>', nl2br(htmlentities($string)), '</textarea>'; This should give you the results you need. -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/