Echoing a <textarea>

[supertrucker]

I have a form where a user can type something about themselves. I also have the same issue in a forum I created. The user types a topic/comment into a <textarea>, I use strip_tags() and trim() to clean it up a bit. After that, I submit the data to a SQL table. If I load the SQL data back into a <textarea>, all formatting such as carriage returns are preserved. If I just "echo" it to the screen, all cr's are lost, and everything is printed on one line. If I use the <PRE></PRE> tag, than the formatting is displayed as it should, but no word wrap is used. If I just use <P></P> then nothing is preserved just as a standard echo.Is there a solution to this? There obviously is, as these forums for instance have properly separated these two paragraphs. :)ST

[supertrucker]

Ahh, nevermind! Got it: $chattext = str_ireplace("\r\n",'<br/>',$chattext);

[Ingolme]

Try doing this instead:

$chattext = nl2br($chattext);

[supertrucker]

Try doing this instead:

$chattext = nl2br($chattext);

Thank you, that worked just as well

[supertrucker]

It seems I somehow posted this exact same post twice! To the forum moderator, the one below this can be removed, my apologies!ST