Re: Retaining formatting problem

In article <20030708092957.E02FE9481C@adm3.sa.schools.net.au>, brenton@lefevrehs.sa.edu.au says... > Hello everyone, > > I have a long running problem that i just want to get covered, I have a standard text box for > people to insert long lengths of text. > > This text box is in a standard <input type="text"> but when I insert it into > the database the line returns dissapear, eg > > "this > > little amount of > > text" > > will enter like > > "this little amount of text will enter like" > > Please help me it is p!!$$!ng me right off :P > > Cheers in advance Mate, newlines in HTML are treated as whitespace, so all the newlines will be faithfully stored in your database and faithfully ignored by your browser when you display the contents of the database :-) Look at 'View Source' and you will see the new lines in the source. You want to feed the output from your database to nl2br() to add some <BR /> tags so browsers will recognise the line breaks. May I recommend you tell Outhouse to wrap lines at around 74 characters for mail lists/newsgroups? [Lefevre - down in the direction of Semaphore or the Port?] Cheers -- Quod subigo farinam