I presume you have tried

greg — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:24:53 +0000

I presume you have tried nl2br() on the entire content?

If the line breaks "are there" that might force them.

The text is wrapping ok, but

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:03:59 +0000

The text is wrapping ok, but the line breaks are not taking. This is a system that is used at work. I can't change anything on the system side. The only thing I can do is a workaround on the client side...which is why I mentioned an extension or greasemonkey script. I will post some screenshots of the system Monday and post a copy of the HTML source.

pr0gr4mm3r wrote: data is

decibel.places — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:13:56 +0000

pr0gr4mm3r wrote:

data is ~~loosing~~

losing

loosing means "letting loose"

this reminds me of a JS quiz

decibel.places — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:12:13 +0000

this reminds me of a JS quiz engine and editor app I created with lots of form input fields

getting the line breaks and special characters transferred sometimes through multiple stages was tricky

pay extra attention to the code and entities, use JS alert frequently to debug

greg is onto something with wrap - but wrap="hard" does not work in Opera 5.12

you could also do something like adding a certain character or code (eg "<br />" when the enter/return key is pressed (but you say the textare is prepopulated -- so is the text it is prepopulated with have the correct format?)

Isn't this something to do

greg — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:13:39 +0000

Isn't this something to do with either:
A) The HTML form code, EG cols and rows not being set correctly in the form (or differently if you are entering and then viewing in different forms)

B) The way the data is stored in the DB(?)

What I'm getting at is specifying precisely the form attributes and storing correctly the data, it shouldn't look different in one or the other.
Either using correct cols/rows or even adding wrap="xx" to the form.

EG wrap="hard" - although I'm not sure about how "other" browsers handle that, as using wrap in HTML forms often brings varying results in different browsers.

link? code? Private internal

pr0gr4mm3r — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:41:26 +0000

link? code?

Private internal system.

All I know is that a textarea field is pre-populated with some data, and that data is loosing all the line breaks. If I view it in IE, the line breaks are retained.

link? code?

decibel.places — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:53:17 +0000

link? code?