Re: Text Area Question

"Conbud" <conbudd@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:20040428075016.84993.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi, I have a form with a text area, what I would like to do is What ever > text the user types into the textarea will be entered into a database with > the same formatting they used when typing in the data. For exampe: > > Hello > > PHP > > World > > If they type it so that it looks exactly like that, I want it to post that > same way on the webpage when it gets the info from the database. I thought > that if they type that way and the info saves into a blob record it would > save the breaks, but when i go to get the info to display on the webpage its > just one really long line, I tried using <pre> but it was still one line. I > notcided that if I didnt let the text wrap on its own in the textarea it > looked the way I wanted, but to keep it from wrapping you had to enter > before the text started wrap. The area needs to be no more than 150 > characters wide, so I was wandering if there is a way to make it insert a > break before the text wraps, so that the user wont have to hit enter > everytime before the text starts to wrap. > > Sorry for such the long question, this was kinda hard for me to explain, but > I really appreciate it. You have to convert the linebreaks into HTML <br> tags for output: echo nl2br($myText); Regards, Torsten