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Old August 11th, 2003, 01:37 PM
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Returns and text areas - retaining formatting
How does one retain the formatting of a text area like the one I am typing in now. Specifically returns

like


this

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just grab the textarea on submit like

PHP Code:
// grab textarea 
$textarea = $_POST['textarea_field_name'];
// then replace any line breaks with a html break
$textarea = str_replace('\n', '<br>', $textarea); 
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nl2br() will do the trick
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