Re: php/html displaying query

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:44, Angelo Zanetti wrote: > HI all, > > I have this situation & think that maybe some of you could advise me on > a solution. > > I have a field in my database which is about a few paragraphs long. > When the user edits this paragraph using php/html in a textarea it > displays correctly with the lines that separate the paragraphs. These > lines are merely blank lines. > > However when I want to display this field in HTML I have a problem that > its all bunched into 1 paragraph, obviously because there are no <p> or > <br> tags telling the browser there is a space in between, 1 way to get > this to work is to to insert <p> or <br> statements in the paragraph but > when the user then edits the paragraph in the textarea it will show the > <p> or <br> tags which i dont want, they are end users and will probably > delete them. Is there a way to get around this?? either displaying the > blank line or by hiding the HTML tags in the textarea (but still saving > the paragraph with them in) Use nl2br() when you display the data; nl2br will add a <BR /> before each newline. -- David Robley "I hope I can still play the guitar," Tom fretted.