--- Randy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a form with a text area. > > When the user submits the data it is saved to a mysql database in a > field of type text. > > When I extract the data from the database and display it in php it > loses the line return and the data is all crammed together.
It doesn't lose it. In HTML, a newline isn't rendered as a newline by a browser unless it is surrounded by pre tags. You probably want to use the br tag instead. PHP has a function to help with this: http://www.php.net/nl2br Hope that helps. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security Handbook Coming mid-2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
