Textarea box whitespace problem 1

[amirkhansemail]

I have a php form in which i have a textarea box, and i insert two or more paragraphs through it in the MySQL db, which is saved just fine.

But when i retrieve and display that data it shows me big chunk of one paragraph. In other words all paragraphs are combined in one big paragraph.

Please help me how can i keep and show the data as originally entered.

Thanks in advance.

 

[traingamer]

If you are storing it in one field and displaying it with html, that is the default. That is, if I type

This

is 
a
bunch
of
paragraphs.

Greg
"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

 

[traingamer]

It will display

This is a bunch of paragraphs.

because that's how html works - it compresses spaces and carriage returns.
You'll either have to add <p> (paragraph tags) via php or do something similar.

Greg
"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

 

[jpadie]

the normal practice is to wrap the output of textboxes in the function nl2br() before sending to the browser.