Re: entering in text data and losing the \n

--- Randy Johnson <rjohnson@seasidepc.com> wrote: > I have a form with a text area. > > When the user submits the data it is saved to a mysql database in a > field of type text. > > When I extract the data from the database and display it in php it > loses the line return and the data is all crammed together. It doesn't lose it. In HTML, a newline isn't rendered as a newline by a browser unless it is surrounded by pre tags. You probably want to use the br tag instead. PHP has a function to help with this: http://www.php.net/nl2br Hope that helps. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security Handbook Coming mid-2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/