Does anyone know how to make paragraph/line breaks display in textarea tags? Text is currently showing up in the results e-mail template like this:

Greetings: some text some text some text some text some text some text some text. some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text some text. some text some text:1.some text some text2.some text some text3.some text some text4.some text some textSee ya.Rex

But I want it to show up like this:


Greetings:

some text some text some text some text some text some text some text. some text some text some text some text some text some text some text.

some text some text some text some text. some text some text:

1.some text some text
2.some text some text
3.some text some text
4.some text some text

See ya.

Rex

you tried using either <BR> or just return carrages?

Yes, I tried that but it didn't work. Besides, the average person who fills out the application wouldn't think of using <br> and <p>, even if the knew html code.

Thanks anyway.

What scripting language are you using to handle your form processing? What does your form script look like?

If you're using PHP, you can use: nl2br()

I am using cgi for the form. Do you think I should go in and alter the script in some way?

Thanks.

You could try something like:

($text = $input{'text'}) =~ s/\n/\n<BR>/g;

If it's Perl.
The input value to the text name is copied to a $text array.

($text = $input{'text'})

All end of lines \n characters are substituted (s/.../ command) by \n<BR>.

s/\n/\n<BR>/g

The s/old_sting/new_string/ command is commonly used in Perl. The g at the end of the command indicates a global substitution (all instances get replaced) rather than the (default) first found.

i am not to famialr with JavaScript, but if they have a string replace function, you could do this. Have it find "\n", and replace it with "<br>", and u can call it from your form submit button like, onClick="ReplaceFunc(mytextarea);" or something like that. you would have to go see how to do it in javascript.