Re: Text Area Question

I tried that, but all that did was put more space between each of my lines anytime I did use enter, when I didnt hit enter to wrap then it came out on 1 long line again. "Torsten Roehr" <roehr@zilleon.com> wrote in message news:20040428080137.18838.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > "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