Posted by Tom Thackrey on 11/05/48 11:16

On 18-May-2005, IWP506@gmail.com wrote:

> Hey all, I'm having some trouble. On a page, I've got a multiline text
> box. When I enter :
>
> a
> b
> c
> d
>
> and hit submit (sending to my post.php page) and from post.php, echo
> $_POST["info"] if shows up as a b c d. No carrige returns show. My
> questions is... how can I do this? I know it's possible because I've
> seen demonstrations, but can't seem to figure out how to do it.

The problem is the browser treats newlines as white space. Change \n to <br>
( str_replace("\n",'<br>',$txt) ) before you echo it to the browser.

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