Capturing linebreaks (newline,linefeed) characters in a textarea

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lock picture lock · Nov 14, 2008 · Viewed 24.3k times · Source

I have a form with a <textarea> and I want to capture any line breaks in that textarea on the server-side, and replace them with a <br/>.

Is that possible?

I tried setting white-space:pre on the textarea's CSS, but it's still not enough.

Answer

Marc picture Marc · Nov 14, 2008

Have a look at the nl2br() function. It should do exactly what you want.

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