[thelist] HTML Forms: Carrage Returns in Text Area

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Fri Aug 8 17:51:12 CDT 2003


At 03:43 PM 8/8/2003, Casey Crookston wrote:
>Hello,
>
>How would you force an HTML form to recognize sinlge and double returns in a
>text area?  On the action page when the string is displayed, all returns
>have been ignored.

When you display the result either wrap it in <pre> or <code>, or write a 
routine that converts the CRLFs to a <br>.

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Anthony Baratta
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