Question

If i generate HTML data from MySQL using PHP like this:

/* SQL query */

while ($result = mysql_fetch_object($sql_query) {
   $text = $result->table_text;
}

If i echo the result to a textarea I get correct line breaks that the user has entered in a previous <form>. For example

Code:

<textarea>$text</textarea>

Result:

These
are
row breaks

But if I echo the result to a <div> everything comes out to one line.
Code:

<div>$text</div>

Result:

These are row breaks

If I run the query in command line, it seem’s to output the row breaks. But how can I generate them in a div?

Answer 1

Use nl2br function

echo nl2br($text);