On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:07 PM, TG <tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > my client ask me about this problem 2 weeks ago. he want the text to automatically go to new line after user type until the end of the line. The only possible solutions so far is using wrap='hard' or wrap='soft' eg: <textarea cols=10 rows=10 wrap=hard> but wrap only work on IE & Netscape browser. Not working in firefox. i guess i want to use javascript to do the text formatting. trigger the javascript event every time the user using the onchange event (i never try).. i is quite complicated & i dont have much time working on it. so i decided to tell him, it cannot be done :)
