From: "Christine Clerc" <x.clerc@xxxxxxx> > My pages collect short texts from different languages through HTML > forms. The texts are stored in a MySQL database. Then, they are used > in HTML pages. > > Problem 1 : the carriage returns don't show back up. Yes they do. Look at the HTML source of your page and the newlines are there. HTML doesn't recognize newlines, though. Use the nd2br() function or some homegrown method to convert the newlines into <br /> elements that HTML understands. ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php