Re: new lines in textareas?
| From: | Casey | Date: | Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:28:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: new lines in textareas? | ||
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Mary Anderson
<maryfran@demog.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a php script which produces text which is to be displayed in
> a textarea. I have the wrap for the text area set to 'hard'. I need to
> have newlines inserted in the text.
> "\n" and "<br>" don't work. They just get quoted literally
> in the
> text. I suspect I need to use htmlspecialchars , but don't know what
> special character to feed it.
>
> Apologies if this should go to an HTML forum. I checked several
> archives and did not find anything useful. (They tended to tell me to
> put in \n or <br>!)
>
> Thanks
>
> Mary Anderson
>
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\n, or just a plain line break, should work.
<?php
echo '<textarea>Hello,
My favorite color is blue.
Signed,
Me!';
?>
Should work.
-Casey