Paragraph Breaks, Text Format In Echoed Mysql Table Text?

[paulmo]

possible/how to style echoed table text?

[Synook]

You mean you want the newlines converted to breaks? nl2br().Or if you want paragraphs instead of double newlines? (Untested:)

$string = preg_replace("/((\r)?\n){2,}(.*?)((\r)?\n){2,}/s", "\n<p>$3</p>\n", $string);

[jeffman]

Are you in PHP? For line breaks, look here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.phpOtherwise it's all search-and-replace.Unless you want to put the plain text inside <pre></pre> tags. These preserve line breaks and tabs as in a plain text editor.

[paulmo]

thanks for the responses. yes i'm in php, so str_replace or regex? thanks for that regex code. use <pre> in db table text or php code? or with regex, put code after echo $row? thanks for php manual link. i'll put together something and post it here.

[Synook]

<pre> as a HTML tag surrounding the text will preserve newlines.

[paulmo]

tried <pre>, that seems relevant to html text already in doc.

nl2br()

is preserving line breaks in echoed table data!