[RESOLVED] Preserve whitespace

[mikesch]

Hi,

How do I preserve whitespace that's entered as part of a text?

I have a simple HTML form, where I enter some text that is being saved into a database. Later, when I access the database and display the text, the "extra" whitespace is gone. The new lines are preserved as I use nl2br().

Please help.

Thank you.

[bpat1434]

Output the database text inside <pre></pre> tags.

[mikesch]

I did that. It works, except it also preserves the original font which I would like to modify when I output the text again.

[Installer]

This should work:

$str = str_replace(' ', ' ', $str);

[bpat1434]

Or....
<pre style="font: arial;">
<!-- Your database text here -->
</pre>

And pre is th proper way to do it as it will also keep tabs, not just spaces...