Line Breaks in a Textarea

[joelbyrd@gmail.com]

Didn't know exactly where to post this, but: How do I get line breaks
in a textarea? I'm pulling text from a database, and this text
definately has line breaks in it, because I
replaced all the line breaks with <br /> tags ( using the php function
nl2br() ), and <br /> tags showed up in the textarea.

[Chris Hope]

Re: Line Breaks in a Textarea

joelbyrd@gmail. com wrote:
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> Didn't know exactly where to post this, but: How do I get line breaks
> in a textarea? I'm pulling text from a database, and this text
> definately has line breaks in it, because I
> replaced all the line breaks with <br /> tags ( using the php function
> nl2br() ), and <br /> tags showed up in the textarea.[/color]

If you don't use nl2br(), and the text has line breaks in it, then those
line breaks will actually show up as line breaks in the textarea. You
don't need the <br /> tags.

--
Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com

[Rik]

Re: Line Breaks in a Textarea

joelbyrd@gmail. com wrote:[color=blue]
> Didn't know exactly where to post this, but: How do I get line breaks
> in a textarea? I'm pulling text from a database, and this text
> definately has line breaks in it, because I
> replaced all the line breaks with <br /> tags ( using the php function
> nl2br() ), and <br /> tags showed up in the textarea.[/color]

GOOGLE: html textarea line-break

Further:[color=blue]
> this text definately has line breaks in it, because I replaced all the[/color]
line breaks with <br /> tags"

Do you mean: "this text has lost his line-breaks because I replaced them"?

Have you replaced all the line-breaks BEFORE adding it to the database (to
store html-code for example)? If so:
$string = str_replace("<b r />", "<br />\n", $string);

Else: don't use nl2br() while displaying it in a textarea.

Compare the following code in your browser:
<textarea>this< br />is<br />some<br />text</textarea>
<textarea>thi s
is
some
text
</textarea>


Note:
"\n" works, '\n' doesn't, at least here on w2k with PHP 5.0.5, I have no
idea wether this is always the case.

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Line Breaks in a Textarea

Message-ID: <e2u3ak$8om$1@n etlx020.civ.utw ente.nl> from Rik contained
the following:
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>Else: don't use nl2br() while displaying it in a textarea.[/color]

AFAIK nl2br() adds a <br /> butt doesn't remove the \n

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[Rik]

Re: Line Breaks in a Textarea

Geoff Berrow wrote:[color=blue]
> Message-ID: <e2u3ak$8om$1@n etlx020.civ.utw ente.nl> from Rik contained
> the following:
>[color=green]
>> Else: don't use nl2br() while displaying it in a textarea.[/color]
>
> AFAIK nl2br() adds a <br /> butt doesn't remove the \n[/color]

Yup, but in shows "<br />" in the textarea, so you get line-breaks, and on
every end a useless <br />.
Which would you prefer:
<?php
$string="aksfdj al\nsgfhsflijsl fj\nsdihflsjfld sf";
?>
<textarea><?p hp echo nl2br($string); ?></textarea>
<textarea><?p hp echo $string; ?></textarea>

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[khoa.tran]

Re: Line Breaks in a Textarea

joelbyrd@gmail. com wrote:[color=blue]
> Didn't know exactly where to post this, but: How do I get line breaks
> in a textarea? I'm pulling text from a database, and this text
> definately has line breaks in it, because I
> replaced all the line breaks with <br /> tags ( using the php function
> nl2br() ), and <br /> tags showed up in the textarea.[/color]

The line-break in textarea is "\n", not <br /> tag. So, if you get data
from one textarea and display in another textarea, you don't need to
convert anything.