okay, so i have this simple news posting function,, when content is submitted via a form it is placed inside appropriate html, timestamped, given a "permalink," saved to an "includes" file and all that.. then i remembered i have to put in <br/> for returns. so i use str_replace() to search for "\n" and replace it with "<br/>"
it all works great, but when i look at the file, it puts little vertical standing rectangles in where the change was made. previously, i thought these represented returns (i have previously downloaded text files that should have had returns where those are (and to correct the problem i always paste it into word and then back into the txt file,)) but now i have no idea why it would be there or how to prevent it from being added
thanks for taking the time to read my blah blah blah
