New Line in Text Area

bigc79

Hi there...

I want to be able to pass a string into a text area and for string to format itself so that it displays properly.

At the moment I have strings such as:


"Test<br>String<br>here"

when I pass this into the text area it obviously simply outputs:


"Test<br>String<br>here"

what I am trying to do is to have take the tags and change them for new lines so that the output would be


Test
String
here

I have tried to egri the for /n but it just prints out that... does anyone know how to control the text area layout schema?

Thanks

Clive

Anon

you would want to change a BR tag to a \n.

try this:

$newLineStr = ereg_replace(" ","\n",$brStr);

Anon

$myString = \\"This is a test\\";

$myOtherString = nl2br($myString);

echo strip_tags($myOtherString);

the output would be

This
is
a
test

Anon

I haven't the first idea what I was thinking with that post. It couldn't be more incorrect. That's what happens whrn you try to think when your tired.

I apologize.

bigc79

it is alright... I used the function you were talking about to place the 's in... but I wanted to strip them out and force line brakes.

I have resolved this now but thankyou for you help any waz :o)

As Always

Clive