CRs in textarea box

Anon

I have a textarea box that displays some notes from a DB field. I would like to be able to edit this box, perhaps stick a date in there via a PHP script.

I tried appending both a <BR> and a "\n" after the date in the script but neither works properly. The <BR> just gets included as part of the text, and the "\n" does nothing.

What's the correct way to insert a carriage return into a textarea box via a script?

Anon

If your database string contains the \n character which is, I think ACSII-10 or chr(10) in php talk, then it should show in the text area.

You have to think about your strategy.

If you're going from database to textarea and back to database (with no previews), you should be able to not replace \n's with '<br>'. BTW the proper XML method is '<br/>' but that's another story.

See the attached code:

<?php
//i didn't connect to a db so heres some text with newlines in it:
$data= "I am writing a line

now I'm writing a new line.

and another";
?>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="test.php">
<textarea name="textfield" cols="45" rows="5"><?php echo $data;?></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

sam fullman
Compass Point Media
</form>

fitzbean

\n works for me.