TextArea formatting issue

[Matt]

I have a textarea that is populated from a blob within a database.
Everytime the data is pulled, however, there is always a lot of leading
space characters before the actual text. It is not in the database
this way, so how might I specify more formatting parameters within the
textarea?

Matt Williams

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I have a textarea that is populated from a blob within a database.
Everytime the data is pulled, however, there is always a lot of leading
space characters before the actual text. It is not in the database
this way, so how might I specify more formatting parameters within the
textarea?

Matt Williams

What I found was that I had a statement like....

echo ' blab blaob
'.$mytext.'
and so on'

and that spaces were added because of the line and perhaps also the
'invisible' extra space in the document on those lines after the code.

I changed it to

echo 'bla bla '.$mytext.' bla bla'

and this helped - but I am only a novice novice, so dont take it too
serious.

[Matt]

This would be my first suspicsion as well, but I entered my sample data
in the database by hand for testing purposes.......it has no extra
space appended to either sid of the text. I will try and draw what is
happening to my data
_______________________________________
| blahblahblahblahb | ^ |
|lahblahblahblahblahb | v |
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[News Me]

Matt wrote:

This would be my first suspicsion as well, but I entered my sample data
in the database by hand for testing purposes.......it has no extra
space appended to either sid of the text. I will try and draw what is
happening to my data
_______________________________________
| blahblahblahblahb | ^ |
|lahblahblahblahblahb | v |
----------------------------------------

So where is the PHP code that you suspect is causing a problem?

NM

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[Rutger Claes]

Matt wrote:

I have a textarea that is populated from a blob within a database.
Everytime the data is pulled, however, there is always a lot of leading
space characters before the actual text. It is not in the database
this way, so how might I specify more formatting parameters within the
textarea?

Matt Williams

Make shure you put your text in the textarea as follows:
<textarea><?php print $content; ?></textarea>

and not
**<textarea>
***<?php
****print*$content;
***?>
**</textarea>

The second will produce spaces in front and at the end of $content;
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[porneL]

Make shure you put your text in the textarea as follows:
<textarea><?php print $content; ?></textarea>

and not
**<textarea>
***<?php
****print*$content;
***?>
**</textarea>

The second will produce spaces in front and at the end of $content;

Not entirely, whitespace after ?> is removed.

and it should be:
echo htmlspecialchars($content);

to avoid problems with <> chars in text.

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[Matt]

Excellent!!! This fixed the last my problems within this app. I put
the statements inline and everything looks perfectly formatted.....
Thanks

Matt Williams