Removing white space

[slimjim]

I am getting white space at top and at bottom. I am getting confused. First I will show you what I have, and what I tried. But no luck...
Code works fine, but no luck at removing this space....

OK THIS IS ORG CODE

if($action == "change"){  

    $var11 = stripslashes( $news2 );  

    $file="../news2.php";  

    $fileopen=fopen ("$file","w");  

    fputs($fileopen, "$var11");  

    fclose($fileopen);  

    $res="$file has been saved <a href=\"main.php\">Go back</a>";  

}  

echo $res; 
?>  

<form method=post action=editnews2.php?action=change> 
<textarea name="news2" rows="10" cols="70"> 
<?php  

$fp = fopen('news2.php', 'r'); 
$str = fread($fp, filesize('news2.php')); 
fclose($fp); 
echo $str; 
?>  

</textarea><br><br> 
<input type="submit" name=" Submit " value="Submit"> 
</form> 

OK THIS IS WHAT I TRIED USING TRIM

<form method=post action=editnews2.php?action=change> 
<textarea name="news2" rows="10" cols="70"> 
<?php   

$fp = fopen('news2.php', 'r');  

$str = fread($fp, filesize('news2.php')); 
$trimmedTextString = trim($str); 
fclose($fp);  

echo $trimmedTextString;  

?>   

</textarea><br><br> 
<input type="submit" name=" Submit " value="Submit"> 
</form> 

[Installer]

Remember the part about "everything between '<textarea>' and '</textarea>'"? The newlines are showing up.

You could take care of it like this:

<form method=post action=editnews2.php?action=change> 
<textarea name="news2" rows="10" cols="70"><?php $fp = fopen('news2.php', 'r');
$str = fread($fp, filesize('news2.php'));  

$trimmedTextString = trim($str);  

fclose($fp);   

echo $trimmedTextString; ?></textarea><br><br> 
<input type="submit" name=" Submit " value="Submit"> 
</form>

or like this:

echo '<form method=post action=editnews2.php?action=change>'; 
echo '<textarea name="news2" rows="10" cols="70">'; 
$fp = fopen('news2.php', 'r');   

$str = fread($fp, filesize('news2.php'));  

$trimmedTextString = trim($str);  

fclose($fp);   

echo $trimmedTextString;   

echo '</textarea><br><br>';
echo '<input type="submit" name=" Submit " value="Submit">';
echo '</form>';