I’m using an textarea to send text to my DB.
Screenshot of db:
When I’m reading from the DB it removes the line breaks, how can I keep them in $row[‘opmerkingen’]?
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I’m using an textarea to send text to my DB.
Screenshot of db:
When I’m reading from the DB it removes the line breaks, how can I keep them in $row[‘opmerkingen’]?
When displaying text, use
nl2br()to convert newlines to<br/>tags, i.e., instead of<?php echo $row['text']; ?>, use<?php echo nl2br($row['text']); ?>.By default, browsers display newlines as spaces, therefore they have to be converted to
<br/>tags.For those who find this useful – please consider using
white-space: pre-line, suggested by Emil Vikström. I’m not a web guy anymore and easily can’t verify this, but Boaz says in comments that it is supported by all modern browsers. If so, that should be preferred to usingnl2br().