Re: Text Area Question

Don't manually wrap with enter - just let the text flow inside the text box. Then nl2br() will work. Regards, Torsten "Conbud" <conbudd@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:20040428082657.7612.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > 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