Keeping the formatting of text

[Ian Davies]

Probably a simple solution to this one

When I display large piece of text on a web page from a text field in my
database the formatting such as paragraphs line feeds are lost, unless I
include the appropriate html tags in it. How can I display the text as
written initially?

Thanks in advance

[flamer die.spam]

Ian Davies wrote:

Probably a simple solution to this one

When I display large piece of text on a web page from a text field in my
database the formatting such as paragraphs line feeds are lost, unless I
include the appropriate html tags in it. How can I display the text as
written initially?

Thanks in advance

Perhaps <pre></prearound the text.

Flamer.

[Chuck Anderson]

flamer di******@hotmail.com wrote:

Ian Davies wrote:

>Probably a simple solution to this one

When I display large piece of text on a web page from a text field in my
database the formatting such as paragraphs line feeds are lost, unless I
include the appropriate html tags in it. How can I display the text as
written initially?

Thanks in advance

Perhaps <pre></prearound the text.

Or use nl2br($text) to convert line breaks to <br>.

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[axlq]

In article <Wt******************************@comcast.com>,
Chuck Anderson <we************@seemy.sigwrote:

>flamer di******@hotmail.com wrote:

>Ian Davies wrote:

>>When I display large piece of text on a web page from a text field in my
database the formatting such as paragraphs line feeds are lost, unless I
include the appropriate html tags in it. How can I display the text as
written initially?

Perhaps <pre></prearound the text.

Or use nl2br($text) to convert line breaks to <br>.

That converts line breaks to <br /which doesn't validate as
HTML unless you do str_replace("<br />", "<br>", nl2br($text));
And doing that seems inefficient since nl2br() already performs
str_replace("\n", "<br />", $text). You may as well do the
str_replace yourself and ignore nl2br().

<pre>...</preis probably easier. If you don't want monospaced
font, you can always set the CSS font family for <preto sans-serif
or something.

-A

[Geoff Berrow]

Message-ID: <ea**********@blue.rahul.netfrom axlq contained the
following:

>That converts line breaks to <br /which doesn't validate as
HTML unless you do str_replace("<br />", "<br>", nl2br($text));
And doing that seems inefficient since nl2br() already performs
str_replace("\n", "<br />", $text). You may as well do the
str_replace yourself and ignore nl2br().

Except that it's not always \n
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[Rik]

Geoff Berrow wrote:

Message-ID: <ea**********@blue.rahul.netfrom axlq contained the
following:

>That converts line breaks to <br /which doesn't validate as
HTML unless you do str_replace("<br />", "<br>", nl2br($text));
And doing that seems inefficient since nl2br() already performs
str_replace("\n", "<br />", $text). You may as well do the
str_replace yourself and ignore nl2br().

Except that it's not always \n

preg_replace('/(\r\n|\r|\n)/','<br>',$string);

Grtz,
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[Geoff Berrow]

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contained the following:

>Except that it's not always \n

preg_replace('/(\r\n|\r|\n)/','<br>',$string);

Nice one Rik. :-)

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[Ian Davies]

Thank you everyone that has given me a number of options to try
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contained the following:

Except that it's not always \n

preg_replace('/(\r\n|\r|\n)/','<br>',$string);

Nice one Rik. :-)

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[Tim Roberts]

ax**@spamcop.net (axlq) wrote:

>

>>Or use nl2br($text) to convert line breaks to <br>.

That converts line breaks to <br /which doesn't validate as
HTML unless you do str_replace("<br />", "<br>", nl2br($text));

Interesting. I hadn't realized that form wasn't in the HTML standard.
Every browser in the world will accept <br/>, and it is required for XHTML.
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[Jim Carlock]

>>Or use nl2br($text) to convert line breaks to <br>.

>
That converts line breaks to <br /which doesn't validate as
HTML unless you do str_replace("<br />", "<br>", nl2br($text));

"Tim Roberts" <ti**@probo.comwrote:

Interesting. I hadn't realized that form wasn't in the HTML standard.
Every browser in the world will accept <br/>, and it is required for
XHTML.

Do you know if the extra space in the <br /was required at one time?
I just tested a page with <br/and it validated as XHTML Transitional,
XHTML Strict, and HTML Strict and and it doesn't seem to be required.
For some reason though, I've always put that extra space in. I'm now
wondering why I put it in there...

HTML Strict doesn't validate the <meta /tags in the header and requires
the meta tags configured as follows:

<meta name="description" content="test">

However, the closed /tags validate (<br /and <img />) when they're
in the body (HTML 4.0 Strict).

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