Hello, I have a wysiwig textarea editor, I want to update my text, the content is retrieved from database and inserted into this textarea through a javascript function, the first arguemnt passed, which is the data from database, contents additional new lines, so this causes a javascript error, I have tried these: $des = mysql_result($select2 , 0 , 'des'); $des = stripslashes($des); $des = html_entity_decode($des); $des = str_replace("\n", " ", $des) ; $des = preg_replace("/\r?\n/", "", $des); I still see new lines after divs, uls, ols, li(s) lists Help appreciated