The newlines are preserved. Do a view source of your page where you're displaying it and you'll see what I'm talking about. HTML just doesn't render newlines, only <br>. If you're seeing something different, then show your code and explain this more.
---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Chagnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] multiple line text area > > That would work, only I need to copy this text to a file without the </br> > in it. > -Greg > > > "John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I need to be able to preserve line breaks when a user types in > > multiple > > > lines in a multitple line test area. Right now if I echo > > > $_POST['textarea'] > > > I get everything on one line. Is there any way to do this? Thanks! > > > -Greg > > > > www.php.net/nl2br > > > > ---John W. Holmes... > > > > PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy > > today. http://www.phparch.com/ > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
