Right.. But the browser also should be ignoring the carriage returns
as well, which makes me think the div is set to "white-space: pre;" or
something. He said the text is being formatted in a div exactly how
it is entered into the system. By default, a div does not render any
carriage returns.
On 6/13/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Good point. Only problem is, if someone hit enter a-million times,
> > you would end up with a-million spaces where the "\n" characters were.
> > To take care of that repetition, maybe something like:
> >
> >
> > while (strpos($textarea_text, "\n\n")) {
> > .....
> > }
> >
> >
> > would be one way you could do it.
>
> Ordinarily most browsers render multiple consecutive spaces as a single
> space. This doesn't mean that it's not a good idea to remove them, just that
> not doing so shouldn't effect the way the text is displayed in the div tag,
> as the original poster mentioned was his intention.
>
> Regards,
>
> Murray
>
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