Re: [PHP] new lines in textareas?

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:07 PM, TG <tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Is \n included literally because you're using single quotes for the
variable?

$textdata = 'This is a test\nThis is the second line';

vs...

$textarea = "This is a test\nThis is the second line";

I would guess a lot of the pages you find are talking about what to do
with
the text after submitting through the textarea, not re-displaying with
proper breaks when loading a page containing a text area that should have
data.

-TG

----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Anderson <maryfran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:26:24 -0700
Subject: [PHP] new lines in textareas?

Hi all,
I have a php script which produces text which is to be displayed in
a textarea. I have the wrap for the text area set to 'hard'. I need to
have newlines inserted in the text.
"\n" and "<br>" don't work. They just get quoted literally in the
text. I suspect I need to use htmlspecialchars , but don't know what
special character to feed it.

Apologies if this should go to an HTML forum. I checked several
archives and did not find anything useful. (They tended to tell me to
put in \n or <br>!)

Thanks

Mary Anderson


my client ask me about this problem 2 weeks ago. he want the text to
automatically
go to new line after user type until the end of the line. The only possible
solutions so
far is using wrap='hard' or wrap='soft'
eg: <textarea cols=10 rows=10 wrap=hard>
but wrap only work on IE & Netscape browser. Not working in firefox.
i guess i want to use javascript to do the text formatting. trigger the
javascript event
every time the user using the onchange event (i never try)..
i is quite complicated & i dont have much time working on it.
so i decided to tell him, it cannot be done :)