I am prefilling a field in an SQLForm, but there are other fields that the user will fill out. The text I am prefilling I would like to display, but not allow the user to edit it. I am setting the writable to false, but the problem is the text I am filling with has multiple lines all separated by newlines(\n). I need to keep the newlines because this data will eventually be pulled out of the database, put into a file, and then loaded on some hardware, so replacing the '\n' with <br> isn't really an option. The problem is by setting writable to false, it converts the text just to normal html text which doesn't understand newlines. I would like to either put the data into a textarea, but I will need to disable it so the user can't modify it, or figure out a way to replace the newlines with <br> but only on the html page, and make sure newlines are entered in the database.
Any help is greatly appreciated.Thanks!
