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user1260310
user1260310

Reputation: 2227

php/html: Force line breaks to appear inside textarea

This should not be that hard but I can't seem to find information on it. How do you get line breaks to appear inside a text area when you are echoing it from the server? In other words what is <some code> in line below? 

<text area>first line <some code> second line <some code> third line</text area>

I know how to write out <some code>. I just need to know what it should be. I have tried \n, \r\n, '\n', "\n", \N and variations but cannot get the line breaks to display.

Note: This is not about displaying in HTML so <br> is not what I want. This is not about getting it to display if you are typing it yourself where you can type a carriage return, i.e. :

<textarea>first line
second line  </textarea>

When you are outputting from server you cannot use keyboard. This is what code to accomplish above.

Thanks for any suggestions

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1398

Answers (5)

trotter
trotter

Reputation: 131

This is a super old question, but I ran into the same issue ajaxing content into a text area.

Thanks to this answer I used the html code for a new line, &#10; and that worked for me. So basically:

<textarea> Here's my returned text &#10; And it gets two lines </textarea>

which (at least for me) comes out as

Here's my returned text

And it gets two lines

Upvotes: 1

fiscme
fiscme

Reputation: 422

You need to use "\r\n" (with double quotes) when echoing it out from PHP.

Upvotes: 0

looper
looper

Reputation: 1989

You should try \r\n instead of /r/n.

Upvotes: 0

M Rostami
M Rostami

Reputation: 4195

for display \n in html you should use nl2br() php function .
otherwise you should using "\n" (not "/n") for break the line inside your text ;

Upvotes: 0

Faizan Khattak
Faizan Khattak

Reputation: 882

try this

<'p'>firstline<'/p'>

<'p'>secondline<'/p'>

remove comma from p and /p

Upvotes: 0

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