I'm going to try and explain what I'm doing before I ask my question.

  We accept applications/payments on line for the medical school.

  Every applicant has to fill out a personal statement. This statement can
be any where from 1 paragraph to 40 pages or more long.

  More than likely they have this statemment already typed using MS Word,
WordPerfect or what ever.

  They can then cut the info from their MS Word/WordPerfect and paste it
into a textarea on the application.

  I have no problem with saving the data to the database, using a column
type varchar. This keeps all the hard returns, indents. 

  Now the applicant has completed the application and wants to print a copy.
When I retrieve  the statement and try to display it using the HTML pre tag
it displays the 1st paragraph as one line. In other words losing all soft
returns.

  If I leave off the pre it prints out as one long paragraph, no line
breaks, no indents.

  Just wondering if anyone has a workaround for this.


  Thanks

  Buddy

  
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