Text Area Format in for

[Anon]

How can you "grab" the format from a text area? Say that I type in a paragraph and then click enter twice to make a new line. How do I transfer that space into the database where I store the info at? Instead of using html tags in the news, it does it automatically.

For examples I would like this:

Test section here of information so this is an example.

Start a new paragraph here so it looks better.

But unless I put in the <br> command in the form it just saves the above information as:

Test section here of information so this is an example.Start a new paragraph here so it looks better.

How do I get it to read the format I use in the text box?

[jburfield]

When you pull the field back out from the database add a nl2br() to it.

So if you have: $textarea = $row[1];
make it: $textarea = nl2br($row[1]);

That will change all line breaks to a < BR > tag.

-- Jason

[Anon]

Thanks! So are you saying that when you upload the paragraph the db should read the breaks even though it is all mangled together. And when you output it like that it will recognize the line breaks?