> When i retrieve the text i have on my database, which was taken from > a > form textbox, i have line breaks ate the end of each line in the textbox. > Ah, hard to explain! > My textbox is small, and everytime, while writing a text in it, the > line > ends and we continued writing on the next one, thats the formatting my > text > on the database gets. It doesnt recognize the line breaks we want (by > pressing ENTER), but takes line breaks simply from reaching the end of the > textbox. How can that be? > > Before i insert the text from the textbox into the database, i do > this: > > $texto = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $texto); > $texto = str_replace("\r", "\n", $texto); > > And when i want to retrieve the text from the database to display it > on > the site, i do: > > $texto = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $texto);
Are you using a WRAP attribute on your TEXTAREA? You'll want to set it to OFF or NONE, probably. I can't remember the exact values, it can take, but I think it's PHYSICAL, VIRTUAL, and NONE/OFF. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php