Re: How do I display new lines in a textearea?
| From: | Petre Agenbag | Date: | Fri, 06 Jun 2003 07:57:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How do I display new lines in a textearea? | ||
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Hi
Thanks, I DID use \n, BUT, I made a stupid mistake, I did:
<textarea>
<?php
echo $word.'\n';
?>
</textarea>
And the literal ' did not "parse" the \n, replacing with " works fine...
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 16:32, CPT John W. Holmes wrote:
> > I want to have a textarea that contains details read from a mysql table,
> > but I want to echo each row so that it is on a new line. What is the
> > "new-line" character for a textarea? ( in effect the reverse of nl2br()
>
> A newline is \n
>
> $text = "word\nword\nword\n";
>
> echo "<textarea>$word</textarea>";
>
> will have each "word" on a different line.
>
> ---John Holmes...