passing multiline text from textarea (very easy)

[sergio_mi]

passing multiline text from textarea to another page
I have as result a one-line-only text.
I know it's easy, but this morning my memory won't work.
thanks

[gesf]

It´s possible for you show us your code?

[sergio_mi]

I've a form with a textarea.
in a textarea you can obviously write some text on more lines like what i'm doing now writing this message.
but if I submit it to a new page (like when I preview this message) for instance in a cell table, the text is displayed only on one line without any "new line" \n;

the output is like: text on a line text on a new line

there no code because it's plain html

if you need more details please ask!
thanks.

[gesf]

Please check if your cell(td), or the place where the text should appear and even your textarea has a property called nowrap.
It indicates that the text should not wrap.

[sergio_mi]

<form action="b.php" method="get">
<textarea rows="10" cols="20" name="txt"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="ssss">
</form>
I write:
line1
line2
line3
line4

in the url bar I see: b.php?txt=line1%0D%0Aline2%0D%0Aline3%0D%0Aline4

the receiving page:
<? $str = $_GET['txt']; ?>
<table><tr><td>
<? echo $str; ?>
</td></tr></table>

the output is:
line1 line2 line3 line4

even setting height value in td nothing changes

as you can see no wrap.

[gesf]

Use this code:

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<?php
$str = str_replace('\n', '<br>', $_GET['txt']);
?>

Instead of yours ...

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<?php
$str = $_GET['txt'];
?>

This should solve your problem ;)

[swirlee]

Better yet, just use nl2br().

The reason for this problem, sergio, is that when an HTML document is displayed in the browser, all whitespace (tabs, newlines, and multiple spaces) are converted to single spaces for display. This is intentional and the correct behavior of the browser. If you open your document in the brower and go to View > Source, you'll see that your newlines are still there; they're just not displayed. In order to do a line break in HTML, we have to use the <br/> tag, hence nl2br().

[gesf]

Great... i forgot that function! Yeh it´s better :-D

[sergio_mi]

grazie swirlee.
sei troppo avanti.
thanks to you too, gesf.