Is \n included literally because you're using single quotes for the variable? $textdata = 'This is a test\nThis is the second line'; vs... $textarea = "This is a test\nThis is the second line"; I would guess a lot of the pages you find are talking about what to do with the text after submitting through the textarea, not re-displaying with proper breaks when loading a page containing a text area that should have data. -TG ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Anderson <maryfran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:26:24 -0700 Subject: new lines in textareas? > 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
