The adding/deleting page uses a <FORM> with <TEXTAREA> to allow someone to copy past the text into the "article" field. This seems to work just fine and if I display the text back in a <FORM> <TEXTAREA> field, formatting works as I expect. Paragraphs are separated by a line of white space and the text wraps to the size of the <TEXTAREA>.
I am trying to display the article on a second page which is formatted to look nice. I would like to avoid the borders and fixed height (with scroll bars) of the <TEXTAREA> field and instead put the text into an auto height table cell with fixed width=500 so the text still wraps nicely on the screen. I've set up a table with 3 columns to allow me to display the title, author, date, etc. nicely at the top and then defined a table cell that spans the 3 columns to hold the article.
echo "<TD colspan=\"3\" width=\"532\"><P>$article</P></TD>";
The text displays, but the paragraph breaks are gone and all the text is just run together into one long paragraph.
Any suggestions on how to get $article to display and keep the white space between paragraphs that it has when displayed in a <FORM><TEXTAREA> like
echo "<td colspan=6><textarea name='article' rows='15' cols='120'>$article</textarea></td>";
For an example, see http://www.cobblekids.org/Pages/Articles/Article_View4b.php and click on an article title.
Thanks, -Landy
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