On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Paul Scott <pscott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 12:29 -0400, tedd wrote: > > At 9:26 PM -0700 3/29/08, Mary Anderson 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. > > > > > Only getting to this now, but doesn't nl2br() do what you want?<http://www.php.net/unsub.php> well, i don't think nl2br() is a solution here because nl2br() only replace the '\n' with <br/> html tags which is displayed inside the textarea. the textarea will display a new line with '\n'.. $str = "hello\nworld"; will display hello world in text area. but $st = 'hello\nworld'. will be display as hello\nworld just like what TG trying to say..
