Question

I have a HTML / Javascript page with some textarea. The user are typing their text with enter to create new lines. The problem lies when the form is submitted via ajax (with the functionnality of jQuery) to PHP. The text is received but without the enter.

How do you pass enters from HTML textarea to PHP?

I’m in POST in this context.

The textarea content the following

asdf

éè ï

"

‘

“

||

@£¢¤¬¦²³³

But the PHP receive the following:

asdféè ï"’“||@£¢¤¬¦²³³

Answer 1

You’re probably not converting newlines into breaklines:

echo nl2br($_POST['myTextArea']);

And to make it safe for output:

echo nl2br( htmlentities( $_POST['myTextArea'], ENT_QUOTES, "utf-8" ) );