[RESOLVED] Formating text loses format once recalled from database

[aarchaic]

have a piece of code i'm writing that takes formated text out of a mysql DB and return it to my site.

i'm using nl2br to seperate the lines and not to have 1 huge chuck of text. but what happens now it pulls it from the db and breaks it into lines an then the spacing is gone things that was centered and things that was on the right all gets pasted on the left.

could you please maybe give me some insight?

THanks
Johan

[Horizon88]

It's possible that the spacing is being preserved, but your browser is ignoring it - more than a single plain space will be ignored by most browsers unless the text is enclosed in something like <pre></pre> tags. Try printing your content between <pre></pre> tags, or view the source code of your page, and see if the spacing is being preserved there.

A better solution would be to implement some basic formatting with HTML and/or CSS, but if it's doing what I suspect, you may be able to do something as simple as:

$content = str_replace(' ', ' ', $content);

Before printing out your content to get something close to what you want.

[aarchaic]

Thanks! the <pre></pre> tags worked!