Re: Line Breaks in a Textarea
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Re: Line Breaks in a Textarea

From: Chris Hope <blackhole@electrictoolbox.com>
Date: Fri Apr 28 2006 - 23:51:25 CEST

joelbyrd@gmail.com wrote:

> Didn't know exactly where to post this, but: How do I get line breaks
> in a textarea? I'm pulling text from a database, and this text
> definately has line breaks in it, because I
> replaced all the line breaks with <br /> tags ( using the php function
> nl2br() ), and <br /> tags showed up in the textarea.

If you don't use nl2br(), and the text has line breaks in it, then those
line breaks will actually show up as line breaks in the textarea. You
don't need the <br /> tags.

-- 
Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com
Received on Mon May 1 03:07:03 2006