[SeanMedia]

I have built a CMS for a client and when they enter text into a <textarea> and it's saved into a database, I can't get it to include any new lines saved when I output the text onto a page between <p> tags.

Basically the user enters:

this

is

a

paragraph

and it spits out:

this is a paragraph

How do I fix this?

[Jack000]

line break in textarea: "\n"

line break in html: "<br />"

if you look in the source, you should see the line breaks. use a string replacement function in php to replace "\n" with "<br />" in the output string.

[SeanMedia]

I've checked the source and I can't see the \n line break.

I also tried

<%=Replace(results("CourseDetails"),"\n","<br />")%>

in ASP and it didn't work.

EDIT: in ASP it's vbCrLf rather than \n
Thanks mate!

[gk]

Incase someone need it... in php the function is nl2br()

[rfresh]

Originally Posted by SeanMedia

I've checked the source and I can't see the \n line break.

I also tried

<%=Replace(results("CourseDetails"),"\n","<br />")%>

in ASP and it didn't work.

EDIT: in ASP it's vbCrLf rather than \n
Thanks mate!

OK, I admit I'm not an .ASP programmer (I work in PHP) but don't you have to assign the function results to a variable to see the return value of the function call?

RalphF
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