When this runs in the body of my page it works perfectly, seperating the lines fine without printing the actual code <br> and </br>:
<?php echo nl2br ($row_cv['proyecto']); ?>
however when I place this within a text area
<textarea name="textarea"><?php echo nl2br ($row_cv['publicaciones']); ?></textarea>
the text in the text box prints out each <br> and </br>
what gives?