showing text captured with a text area input

[stryper]

hello, i have this problem in a page i get long user text with a input text area box, after that i save it in a Mysql table and later i show that text in a browser, but if the user insert spacen between paragraph it doesnt save them it show the text as a long single line of thex, how can i get this spaces (\n) to be showed as user inserts the text.

[missing-score]

You could do a javascript replace

document.whatever.textarea.value.replace(/\n/g,'<br />');

Or PHP replace...

PHP Code:

<?php

ereg_replace("\n",'<br />',$form_value);

?>

Or there is a PHP function that automatically does this.

PHP Code:

<?php

nl2br($form_value);

?>

Hope this helps.

[thox]

you can also use <pre></pre> for displaying preformatted text. then you could also add some nice css to stop it from looking too out of place.

[missing-score]

I forgot about that.

I have never actually used the <pre> tag before, even though I know what it does. Guess thats just me