Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 07/07/06 01:04

Kentor wrote:

Learn to quote please...not everyone views Usenet in Google Groups.

> well <p style="width:50%"> works... but the text is all sqweeshed into
> one big paragraph and there are no more new lines... its not output in
> the same way the user has entered it =/

Of course not P elements an not suppose to 'recognize' new lines!

> I want to output the information "as is" which was entered in a
> <textarea>, i just want to make sure its not wider than the screen...
> which is what happens in IE if i use <pre>...
>

Which screen size, the user can have many, can resize the window at any
time. Maybe way you want is put in a DIV and parse user input with PHP's
nl2br().


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Jonathan
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