Returns in Textarea

[treeleaf20]

Can I get returns to show up in a normal form textarea or do I have to use a RTE? If I have to use a RTE does anyone have any suggestions on a nice and simple one to use? I'm also escaping all my posts with:

mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['story']))

Thanks

[NogDog]

The newlines will be in the data. When you output it to a [X]HTML page, you'll either need to output it in something like a <pre> tag to maintain the exact formatting, or you can use the [man]nl2br/man function to convert the newlines into <br /> tags:

echo "<pre>".$row['text']."</pre>";
// ...or...
echo "<p>".nl2br($row['text'])."</p>";

[treeleaf20]

That worked out perfect. Appreciate the help.