Yep that was it. Thank you very much.
Randy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Shiflett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Randy Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] entering in text data and losing the \n > --- 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