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Asked: June 4, 20262026-06-04T03:47:51+00:00 2026-06-04T03:47:51+00:00

In a form that I’m building, I have textareas which will include a nice

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In a form that I’m building, I have textareas which will include a nice amount of text, with line breaks included, such as:

Sentence one

Sentence two

I am posting this to my form by using htmlentities, ex:

. htmlentities($_POST['textarea']) .

This however, produces the following in the email (HTML email) that gets sent by the form:

Sentence one Sentence two

Is there anyway to preserve line breaks with htmlentities?

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    2026-06-04T03:47:52+00:00Added an answer on June 4, 2026 at 3:47 am

    Use nl2br() which converts \n to <br />:

    . nl2br(htmlentities($_POST['textarea'])) .
    
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