Re: new lines in textareas?
| From: | Paul Scott | Date: | Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:40:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: new lines in textareas? | ||
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On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 12:29 -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 9:26 PM -0700 3/29/08, Mary Anderson 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.
> >
Only getting to this now, but doesn't nl2br() do what you want?
--Paul
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