Re: entering in text data and losing the \n

Yep that was it. Thank you very much. Randy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Shiflett" <shiflett@php.net> To: "Randy Johnson" <rjohnson@seasidepc.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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/ > >