Posted by Ivan Marsh on 08/27/07 21:54

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:39:59 -0700, Fester Bestertester wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Our Systems Team is creating a form that will enable users to submit an
> application,which includes an essay.
>
> The problem: When the user submits the essay through the text form
> field, the result we see is one solid block of text with no breaks. We
> are trying to avoid depending on the student to add <p> for each paragraph.
>
> What coding is required to translate the keystroke "Enter" as <p>, so
> the output will contain paragraph breaks. Of course, the code must be
> 508 compatible.
>
> Thanks for your help.

nl2br is what I use when working with text areas... Seems to maintain the
formatting pretty well.

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