Question

I have a post form with a text area in it. When I save the text from my textarea into mysql db, the text is saved with some white spaces before and after my actual test.

Why is happening this? How can I overcome this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

There’s probably whitespace in your markup. For example:

<textarea>
    <?php echo ($textareavalue); ?>
</textarea>

You could either remove the whitespace

<textarea><?php echo ($textareavalue); ?></textarea>

Or you could trim() the input before storing it to the database

$_POST ['textareavalue'] = trim ($_POST ['textareavalue']);