Hi Tony, Thanks a lot. That solved my problem.
Regards, Delz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:40 PM Subject: Re: Text formatting > That's because the browser doesn't read the line breaks without a <br > /> tag at the end. All you need to do is this: > > <?php > > echo nl2br($textarea); > > ?> > > nl4br(); will insert a <br /> tag after every new line so your browser > can display it correctly. > > On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 11:07 PM, delz wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm using mysql and php but I'm having problems printing my output > > using a > > browser. It's like this, i have a form and it has a text area that has > > the > > following contents: > > > > Hello World. > > Hello World. > > Hello World. > > > > What happens is when I output the content using the php command echo, > > i.e. <?php echo "$textarea";?> > > > > the output is like this on the browser : > > > > Hello World.Hello World. Hello World. > > > > Its printing the output in one straight line. > > > > Are there any command other than "echo" that can output the same > > format as > > that given on the text area. Please help. > > > > Regards, > > > > Delz -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
