passing form data

[jib]

Im a relative newbie to html/php etc and come across a problem thats probably very easily solved.

on one page i have a few textarea input boxes. What i want to do is pass them to the next page and preserve the formatting (i.e. carriage returns etc). If i just echo the values it loses the carriage returns and looks ugly on the next page. How can I fix this?

cheers...

[matto]

the carriage returns are passed on, too.
but in order to display them properly in the browser, you have to convert them into <br>s:

$text = nl2br($text);

[jib]

that works a treat... thankyou soooo much