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I have a form with only one element (a text area created in Dreamweaver.) I want a user to input text in the form in any way he wants(such as paragraphs) and have it output pretty much the same way it was entered except on a different web page. I read about the function nl2br() but I do not understand how it works. I don't need anything as sophisticated as this message window I used to type in the message, I just want my user to be able to type in a textarea and if he wants a new paragraph

then all he would have to do

is hit the enter button

and the text would be displayed like you are seeing it now. I want to be able to do something similiar.

Any suggestions?
May 7 '08 #1
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drhowarddrfine
7,435 Expert 4TB
Haven't a clue what any of that is but it's not related to html/css. You would need javascript or a server side programming language to do that.
May 7 '08 #2

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