New lines with PHP 1

[rrsub]

I have a <TEXTAREA> </TEXTAREA> form. When I post the form into a DB then retreive it to post it in html, there are no 'new lines', everything is run together.

How can I fix that?

 

[Vragabond]

Before you output your results run them through nl2brfunction.

 

[rrsub]

Thanks Vragabond.

Now to tweak this a bit more,

When I enter text in the <TEXTAREA>, the first line is tabbed. How can I stop that?

 

[Vragabond]

You mean first line when you enter in the textarea has a tab character in front? Can you delete that tab? Could be from interpreting white space incorrectly. Have you tried putting the textarea start and end tag right next to each other? Like so:

<textarea></textarea>

 

[rrsub]

That's what it was. In my PHP I had a '\n' after the first tag and a '\t' in front of the close tag. I usually like to keep the html clean for troubleshooting.