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GeekedOut
GeekedOut

Reputation: 17185

How to correctly display text from db which has HTML formatting and text formatting

I have text in db which looks like this:

<p>
blah blah

blah
</p>

When I get the text out of db and display it, I am able to get the <p></p> to make the paragraph space, but the paragraph between the lines of blah does not show up.

When I try to make it work together, I end up with new lines after the natural new line from pressing the enter, and new line from <p> so I end up with way too much space between paragraphs.

Is there a way to make sure both ways of formatting work together nicely?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2250

Answers (3)

recursive
recursive

Reputation: 86064

You can apply this css rule

p {
    white-space: pre;
}

If you do it this way, then you won't need to do any transformation of the string itself.

Upvotes: 1

Crashspeeder
Crashspeeder

Reputation: 4311

I'd say the correct way to go about this is fixing the HTML. This doesn't seem like a PHP issue. You say you want to display space between the first line blah blah and the second line blah. I would rewrite it to be:

<p>
    blah blah
</p>
<p>
    blah
</p>

Upvotes: 2

Derik Nel
Derik Nel

Reputation: 423

You can use :

echo nl2br($db_string);

Upvotes: 4

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