Sure he could (and it might look a lot nicer if he did...), but: 1 he said he doesn't want to, 2 ASCII text can also be formatted (with line breaks, at least), 3 using HTML encourages email bloat, and 4 some email clients don't render HTML
Regards, =dn > Hey, couldn't you just send the text as HTML and it would retain any > formatting? > > Bob > > "Jeff Oien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I have a form where someone enters the body of an email message > > into a <textarea> part of a form to be sent out to a list. Then a script > > retrieves the body and sends it via email. However I can't get line breaks > > to show up (I'm using MS Outlook) even if I enter the \n into the textarea > > form and those \n show up in the database data. I must be missing > > something. Thanks for any help. > > Jeff Oien > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
