Fair enough. If you needed

JeevesBond — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:03:34 +0000

Fair enough. If you needed the work done quickly without having to learn to code, that's the fastest way to do it.

Hi- I paid someone to do

cbc58 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:56:06 +0000

Hi-

I paid someone to do this because I needed it figured out... and they put in a "nl2br" tag and changed around a few brackets and it's working.

I tried to do it but couldn't.

Thanks for all the help and advice.

Chris

Try adding the

webwiz — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:09:22 +0000

Try adding the (non-standard) "wrap=soft" attribute to the textarea.

Let us know if this works, okay?

It's a bit difficult without

JeevesBond — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:39:38 +0000

It's a bit difficult without knowing how your application works. We'll need to see the bit of code that prints this to the page from the database, are you able to get that and paste it in here? Just put <code> tags around it.

Also, what error are you getting from PHP?

Hi - Thanks for the

cbc58 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:58:52 +0000

Hi -

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not sure where to put that in the code........ i've tried a few spots but keep getting php errors. I'll keep trying but if you read this maybe you can make a recommendation.

Thanks again for your help.
Chris

When I look at the source

JeevesBond — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:09:10 +0000

When I look at the source code it looks like how I typed it into the system with the breaks in lines in all

That's what I was talking about, yes. The only whitespace a browser will take any notice of is a space (and it will ignore any other spaces after the first too), this is so that developers can format their code nicely (indent tags, enter comments etc.)

So when that system outputs the text exactly as it was entered, Web browsers will all ignore almost all of it. You need to convert those returns into <br /> or <p> ... </p>

Assuming you're using PHP, run the return from the database through this function:

function nl2p($text) { 
  // Use \n for newline on all systems 
  $text = preg_replace("/(\r\n¦\n¦\r)/", "\n", $text); 

  // Only allow two newlines in a row. 
  $text = preg_replace("/\n\n+/", "\n\n", $text); 

  // Put <p>..</p> around paragraphs 
  $text = preg_replace('/\n?(.+?)(\n\n¦\z)/s', "<p>$1</p>", $text); 

  // convert newlines not preceded by </p> to a <br /> tag 
  $text = preg_replace('¦(?<!</p> )\s*\n¦', "<br />", $text); 

  return $text;
}

(above nabbed from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/4829.htm )

I think so. When I look at

cbc58 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:18:33 +0000

I think so. When I look at the source code it looks like how I typed it into the system with the breaks in lines in all, but it is running altogether as one long sentence when outputted to the screen.

If you look in the source

JeevesBond — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:59:19 +0000

If you look in the source code of the pages this script outputs is the formatting correct. i.e. are all the breaks in the HTML source code?