line feeds inside textarea w- Safari

[admoore]

I have a MySQL mediumtext field which holds the contents of an ongoing conversation log and displays in/updates from an html textarea in a form. Firefox and IE display embedded line feeds- Safari, does not...
Ideas? Alternatives?


TIA,

-Allen M.

 

[jpadie]

personally, i don't see this behaviour across the browsers. they all work just fine with line spaces in the html code.

so my guess would be that there is something going wrong either in the way you store the data (and parse the incoming form variables) or in the way that you are outputting them. If you are able to share the relevant sections of your code we will be doubtless be able to assist.

 

[admoore]

I append new comments to the "conversational" thread stored in the mediumtext field like this:

$conversation.= "$authentic_user "."$trans_date_time "."$new_comments "."\n";

All browsers render the line-feeds fine upon display; however, safari users, and only safari users record new results without the new-line character.

Weird. I have heard of a similar problem w- Safari and javascript.

-A

 

[jpadie]

safari in windows or on Mac?

 

[admoore]

Safari on a mac. Firefox works fine on Mac or PC.

 

[jpadie]

can you provide a link? i do not see this behaviour on a mac, and it's my main dev platform. if no link then please provide a bunch of mark up that's giving you this behaviour.