Re: formatting paragraphs in to strings

Paul Nowosielski wrote: > I'm having a perplexing problem. I'm gather data through a <textarea> > html from field and dumping it to MySQL. > > I want to display the data as a long string with no carriage returns or > line breaks in a dhtml div window. > > The problem I'm have is that the form data is remembering the carriage > returns. I tried using trim() and rtrim() with no luck. The data is > still formatted exactly like it was inputed. this happens only if the text is dsiplayed as pre-formated, like inside <pre></pre>-tags, but this can also be done by CSS > Any ideas why this is happening and how I can format the text properly?? not, with any look at your code or results try preg_replace( '|\s*|', ' ', $string ); it will replaces any occurence of one or more white-space-characters with one single space http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php -- Sebastian Mendel www.sebastianmendel.de www.sf.net/projects/phpdatetime | www.sf.net/projects/phptimesheet