Re: new lines in textareas?

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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Mary Anderson
<maryfran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I have a php script which produces text which is to be displayed in
>  a textarea.  I have the wrap for the text area set to 'hard'.  I need to
>  have newlines inserted in the text.
>      "\n" and "<br>" don't work.  They just get quoted literally in the
>  text.  I suspect I need to use htmlspecialchars , but don't know what
>  special character to feed it.
>
>      Apologies if this should go to an HTML forum.  I checked several
>  archives and did not find anything useful.  (They tended to tell me to
>  put in \n or <br>!)
>
>      Thanks
>
>  Mary Anderson
>
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\n, or just a plain line break, should work.

<?php
 echo '<textarea>Hello,
My favorite color is blue.
Signed,
Me!';
?>

Should work.

-Casey

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