thanks John, I will give that a shot. -----Original Message----- From: CPT John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:18 PM To: Edward Peloke; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Php. Net Subject: Re: [PHP] nl2br
> I am trying to create a very basic page where we can all easily work on a > document. I just have a huge textarea that inserts the text into a longtext > field in the mysql db. I use nl2br to keep the formatting. Of course, when > the document is viewed in the textarea, all of the <br /> are there. THe > problem is, everytime I update the text in the textarea, another set of <br > />'s are put in so with every edit, the lines get farther and farther > apart...why? So stop using nl2br() on the data before you put it in the database. You only use nl2br() when it's displayed on a webpage as HTML. If you're displaying the data in a textarea, you should be running htmlentities() on it before you put it between <textarea> and </textarea> tags. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
