On Sat, March 29, 2008 11:26 pm, Mary Anderson wrote: > 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 Do NOT set the wrap to "hard" It will only cause you grief in the long run. It's going to insert newlines where they shouldn't be, and then your data is corrupt. > 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. If they are being quoted literally, then something is not right... \n in particular should flow through just fine. <br> would be quoted literally if you ran it through htmlspecialchar or htmlentities. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
