On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:37:33PM -0800, Scott Chapman wrote:
> I'm finding that my form data is not preserving carriage returns. When a user
> has a text area to fill in that is multiple lines, carriage returns are not staying
> in the $fdat{fieldname}.
>
> If I take the data that is input on the form and on the next page output it
> again, it shows up as spaces where I pressed Enter.
>
> Why is this and can I make it keep these carriage returns?
The "wrap" attribute of the textarea tag is the one you want.
set it to "hard" to wrap at the display boundaries and at user entered
return characters.
set it to "soft" to wrap only at user entered return characters
(the display will still wrap but the lines will be sent as long
strings)
The default is off. I usually set it to "hard" because I'm usually
saving the output somewhere and so having a maximum column width is
useful.
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