Text Area Removes Enter

[MrFish]

I have a textfield that is used to submit news content to my site. It excepts html (only the admin can use it) and I'm writing bbcode for it but when I hit the enter key to create a newline or space it doesn't save and the text will all site in one line when it is submitted.What I write-

This is a textfield.I hit enter to create a new line.I hit enter twice to create a space.

What it submits as-

This is a textfield.I hit enter to create a new line.I hit enter twice to create a space

How can I fix this?

[jlhaslip]

nl2br() in php or search the textarea and replace the newline (\r\n) with a <br />

[MrFish]

nl2br() in php or search the textarea and replace the newline (\r\n) with a <br />

I didn't know textareas held \r and \n information when you hit enter. Thanks