Re: Text Area Question

Thanks for your help, it did work, I apologize, I forgot to remove my <pre> tags when I tested it. "Torsten Roehr" <roehr@zilleon.com> wrote in message news:20040428083501.49832.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > 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