note 30113 deleted from function.str-replace by pollita

Note Submitter: monkey@greyledge.net ---- After much hair-pulling I think I've found a way to consistently maintain newline formatting within an HTML form textarea tag. The problem I was having was with a text editing 'preview' function, where the contents of the textarea would be passed to another textarea after form submission: each time I would enter some new text and hit the 'preview' function, any linebreaks in the textarea would be doubled on the next page. I knew this had to a conflict related to the MS-DOS style "\r\n" linebreak sequence, and I wrote a simple function to normalize newline sequences in a chunk of text to use only Unix-style '\n' linefeeds: function normalizeNewline($text){ /* fix DOS newlines */ str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $text); /* fix Mac newlines */ str_replace("\r", "\n", $text); return $text; } First I tried using this function on text after it was submitted, but those extra newlines would still appear if I plugged the submitted text back into a textarea. I finally figured out that I have to run this function on text both *before* displaying it in a textarea and again *after* the textarea is submitted in order to preserve the correct number of line breaks in a chunk of text. Hope this helps anyone who might have had the same problem.