Line Breaks in a Textarea

[joelbyrd]

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.

[Chris Hope]

jo******@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.

--
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[Rik]

jo******@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.
GOOGLE: html textarea line-break

Further: this text definately has line breaks in it, because I replaced all the

line breaks with <br /> tags"

Do you mean: "this text has lost his line-breaks because I replaced them"?

Have you replaced all the line-breaks BEFORE adding it to the database (to
store html-code for example)? If so:
$string = str_replace("<br />", "<br />\n", $string);

Else: don't use nl2br() while displaying it in a textarea.

Compare the following code in your browser:
<textarea>this<br />is<br />some<br />text</textarea>
<textarea>this
is
some
text
</textarea>
Note:
"\n" works, '\n' doesn't, at least here on w2k with PHP 5.0.5, I have no
idea wether this is always the case.

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[Geoff Berrow]

Message-ID: <e2**********@netlx020.civ.utwente.nl> from Rik contained
the following:

Else: don't use nl2br() while displaying it in a textarea.

AFAIK nl2br() adds a <br /> butt doesn't remove the \n

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[Rik]

Geoff Berrow wrote:

Message-ID: <e2**********@netlx020.civ.utwente.nl> from Rik contained
the following:

Else: don't use nl2br() while displaying it in a textarea.

AFAIK nl2br() adds a <br /> butt doesn't remove the \n

Yup, but in shows "<br />" in the textarea, so you get line-breaks, and on
every end a useless <br />.
Which would you prefer:
<?php
$string="aksfdjal\nsgfhsflijslfj\nsdihflsjfldsf";
?>
<textarea><?php echo nl2br($string); ?></textarea>
<textarea><?php echo $string; ?></textarea>

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[khoa.tran]

jo******@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.

The line-break in textarea is "\n", not <br /> tag. So, if you get data
from one textarea and display in another textarea, you don't need to
convert anything.