Actually, the TEXTAREA tag does capture the line breaks, they get stored in the mysql
table in a text type column. When I query the table and re-display the TEXTAREA, the
line breaks are preserved. I am using Perl CGI scripts with DBI, DBD-MySQL.
I defined the TEXTAREA (in perl):
<TEXTAREA NAME="portfolio-portdesc" ROWS="5" COLS="65" WRAP="SOFT" > $portdesc
</TEXTAREA>
The $portdesc is assigned the value directly from the SELECT statement, no fancy
formatting required.
>Mike,
> I'm assuming that you are trying to output this to a webpage.
>
> I think your problem is that, HTML does not use line breaks in the
>document. You can try this out by making a simple webpage like this:
>
><p> A
>B
>C
>D
></p>
>
> When you view this in your internet browser, you will see:
>
>A B C D
>
> To insert a line break in HTML, you use a "<br>" tag. In order to have the
>line breaks appear properly in your final document you must insert a "<br>"
>every place the line breaks should appear, and a "</p><p>" at every
>paragraph break.
>
> In PHP I I have my own funtion to do this, but it would not be that hard to
>make one for Perl or ASP, if that is what you are using. It's just a simple
>search and replace.
>
>function format_text($text){
> // Change any "<", and ">" their equivalent HTML entities
> $text = htmlspecialchars($text);
> // Strip out carriage returns
> $text = ereg_replace("\r","",$text);
> // Handle paragraphs
> $text = ereg_replace("\n\n","</p><p>",$text);
> // Handle line breaks
> $text = ereg_replace("\n","<br>",$text);
>return $text;
>}
>
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Daniel Von Fange
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:37 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Form Submission
>
>
>When I submit a form and enter it into the database
>it does not recognize when the user presses enter.
>It keeps coming up as one long line, and for poetry,
>it doesn't look very pleasant.
>
>I would love if anyone could help me because it would
>very much help me when creating future projects. I am
>only 16 and I am doing considerably well since the
>person that showed me MySQL said it was too hard for
>me and I will never get anything good done.
>
>But anyways, please help
>
>Mike
>
>
>
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