Re: How to break TextArea text into lines

Use WRAP=VIRTUAL Then you can wraptext() or if you are using a PHP that pre-dates that, dig out one of the text-wrapping functions from the code archives. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anas Mughal" <anas@erols.com> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 7:01 PM Subject: [PHP] How to break TextArea text into lines > Hi, > I am having this problem with TEXTAREA text that I can't find an easy > solution to. > I tried different settings for the WRAP attribute. With WRAP="PHYSICAL", the > form wraps the text with appropriate line breaks (no long continuous line). > However, when the form is sent back to my form handler, no information about > those line breaks are transmitted. (Please note that I don't expect the > users to enter any line breaks. Users are expected to enter one long > paragraph.) > Now, my form handler has to figure out a way to break these long text lines > into presentable lines (e.g. max of 70 columns each). I can't do that in any > easy way because TEXTAREA doesn't pass me any information about reasonable > line breaks. > So, it seems like my only option is to write a method that would take this > text and attempt at breaking them at whitespaces. I would really appreciate > if someone has written a similar method and would like to share it with me. > Thank you very much for your assistance. > -- > anas mughal > > P.S. Sorry about the length of this message. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >