Form Handling, inserting line breaks

[nightmaredns]

Mmkay, quick question.

I've got a textarea box where users fill in information. How do I make it when users press "enter" to drop down a line, the code say "hey they want a line break" and inserts a <br> tag for me?

Thanks in advance.

[mghfaust]

You don't need to insert "<br>".

As long as there are text-delimited line breaks in the text submitted via the form, you can get them to show up as "<br>" by using the nl2br() function

So if you want to print a paragraph of text ($text)
in html with line breaks, use:

echo nl2br($text)

instead of

echo $text

-mike

Originally posted by nightmaredns
Mmkay, quick question.

I've got a textarea box where users fill in information. How do I make it when users press "enter" to drop down a line, the code say "hey they want a line break" and inserts a <br> tag for me?

Thanks in advance.