storing paragraph in the database

[slick101]

hey everyone, i have user type some info into a input textarea. How can I go by keeping the text format into paragraphs if the user ends up creating them cause when i store it in the db it comes out as 1 paragraph. any ideas?

[coldwerturkey]

nl2br()

[slick101]

thanks!

[djjjozsi]

or use an online html editor as textarea 🙂

[neilmasters]

Or be even simpler and use the CORRECT function as specified by the w3c.

<pre>
Your text
     Goes here
  And will keep all
                               formatting.
</pre>