Thanks for the response, but that is exaclty what I am doing. Here's an example:
I input the following into a varchar field:
This is the first line of text.
This is the second line of text.
This is some text with a <a href="link.php">link</a>
This is the next line.
This is the last line.
On inserting into the database I tell it to do a nl2br() prior to the insert.
The output from a print() statement is:
This is the first line of text.
This is the second line of text.
This is some text with a <a href="link.php">link</a>
This is the next line.
This is the last line.
You see that the formatting is lost after the <a href..> tag.
Any suggestions?
Geoffrey
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>There are two cases possible:
>1. Store already HTML-formatted text in db. Then you do nothing
> before sending it to the screen; never use nl2br() here!
>2. Store plain text, may be with a simpliest tags like b, i, u,
> ol, ul, li, a, img. Then put it through the nl2br() function
> before outputting to browser.
> It's easy for the editor that will update news on the site. So she
> can, for example, copy text from Word document into the form's
> <textarea> in natural paragraphs, & in browser it will look the
> same, without need to insert <br> or <p> for paragraph formatting.
>Just select which one is more suitable for u.
>Monday, July 23, 2001, 2:37:15 PM, Geoffrey Makstutis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>GM> Hi,
>GM> I'm getting a problem when I pull text from a mySQL database. The text is froma
>GM> varchar field and contains some HTML tags. New lines are translated to <BR>,
but
>GM> when the field is outputted, anything coming after an HTML tag loses its
formatting
>GM> (ie. no line breaks converted to <BR>).
>GM> Can anyone suggest a solution?
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