Is there any way to make a textarea box save <br /> automatically. I have a text area box on my page and then I save what the user types into a database with PHP and then output it later on. right now though it wont save any line breaks unless they use HTML.

Is there a way to make it rich text (I think that is what its called).

On a side note, how would I type <br /> in a paragraph and not have it be executed but instead be displayed as text.

Thanks.

nl2br

Originally Posted by Truly

Is there any way to make a textarea box save <br /> automatically. I have a text area box on my page and then I save what the user types into a database with PHP and then output it later on. right now though it wont save any line breaks unless they use HTML.

Is there a way to make it rich text (I think that is what its called).

On a side note, how would I type <br /> in a paragraph and not have it be executed but instead be displayed as text.

Thanks.

$text = 'this

is

some

line breaks';

$text = nl2br($text);


To display <br /> in HTML without making a linebreak, just type this:
&lt;br /&gt;

Thanks guys! That was a great help. Thanks for the move too Chris.