user input formatting

[Anon]

Hello everyone!

I have a field called Highlights, and a user types the highlights into a form which are then put into a table in a database under the field highlights.

Anyways, I want to print the information in highlights to the screen BUT I don't want it to print on one line. I want it to print as if someone pressed "enter" to get to the next line.

How can I do this? Is this possible? Is it possible to allow the user to decide where the "enter" should go??

For example:
The user types:
Hello everyone,
How is everyone today??

right now it prints:
Hello everyone, How is everyone today??

And I want it to print:
Hello everyone,
How is everyone today??

I hope this made sense. Sorry If it didn't!
Thanks so much for your time!!

[scottd]

If you use a textarea then this can easily be done by using:

nl2br($highlights);

else...kinda tricky.

Scottd

[Anon]

thank you

[Anon]

would i use that before adding the record to the database? or when i'm printing it? or both?

[junebug]

i would suggest using it when printing to keep the data in original form, but it is completely personal preference.