on 10/5/00 8:31 AM, George at chaos_creates at yahoo.com wrote: > To clarify: If i was to call two paragraphs of text > from the same field in my Mysql table, that were > seperated by a double space, would it possible with > PHP, to dynamicaly add <P> tags to the begining of > each paragraph so that when the brower reads it the > text retains it's orginal formating instead of being > outputed to the browser as one long piece of text. You could try this, which inserts <br> tags: nl2br (PHP3 , PHP4 ) nl2br -- Converts newlines to HTML line breaks Description string nl2br (string string) Returns string with '<BR>' inserted before all newlines. <http://www.php.net/manual/html/function.nl2br.html> HTH -- Rob Keniger big bang solutions <mailto:rob at bigbang.net.au> <http://www.bigbang.net.au>