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Posted by axlq on 10/04/61 11:54
In article <Wt-dnSrpTKm-tEzZnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Chuck Anderson <websiteaddress@seemy.sig> wrote:
>flamer die.spam@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Ian Davies wrote:
>>> When I display large piece of text on a web page from a text field in my
>>> database the formatting such as paragraphs line feeds are lost, unless I
>>> include the appropriate html tags in it. How can I display the text as
>>> written initially?
>>
>> Perhaps <pre></pre> around the text.
>
>Or use nl2br($text) to convert line breaks to <br>.
That converts line breaks to <br /> which doesn't validate as
HTML unless you do str_replace("<br />", "<br>", nl2br($text));
And doing that seems inefficient since nl2br() already performs
str_replace("\n", "<br />", $text). You may as well do the
str_replace yourself and ignore nl2br().
<pre>...</pre> is probably easier. If you don't want monospaced
font, you can always set the CSS font family for <pre> to sans-serif
or something.
-A
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