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Formatting inside the <textarea> code.


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If I want to take the input from a form, such as this:

<textarea rows="15" cols="20" name="newsBody"></textarea>

and keep the input formatted in a manner determined by the user (i.e. keeping line breaks), what are my steps?Is there a simple HTML answer, or am I getting into something a little more advanced?Thanks so much!love,JasonAlso, sorry about the "<textarea>" in the title. I thought I needed that. Apparently I'm a worrier.

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I dont really understand you, you can set the font?
Sorry. Let me clarify:Say the user inputs text as:"Hello,This is my text. I hope you like it.Sincerely,User"When I go to retrieve that information and display it somewhere else (I'll be using PHP for this portion of things), it displays as:"Hello, This is my text. I hope you like it. Sincerely, User"How can I get all my line breaks to include themselves when I submit the text in my text area?Hopefully this makes a little more sense...Jason
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If using php try this. If you put the text input into a variable $text then print it on screen using:print nl2br($text);which will print it out with the line breaks. Its a start but you will run into problems if the user starts placing single and double quote marks into the text so you will also need to take that into account.

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you will run into problems if the user starts placing single and double quote marks into the text so you will also need to take that into account.
Thanks!I'll check into safeguarding against the quotes. You've been a great help!Jason
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