I would start with a <p>, then print the data from the database, str_replace("\n","<p></p>",$string); and then end with a </p>, that way you have opening and closing <p></p> tags. -- -------------------------------------------------------------->> Jasper Howard :: Database Administration Velocity7 1.530.470.9292 http://www.Velocity7.com/ <<-------------------------------------------------------------- "Marcjon" <marcjon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1093844358.24698.203307089@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Try this: > echo str_replace ( "\n", "<p>", $string); > > I believe it always stores newlines as \n, since PHP and MySQL are > native to Unix/Linux. > -- > Marcjon -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php