Formatting The Contents Of A Text Area Form Field
On my site I get users to enter a load of information in a textarea
box, however when i save this data to my mysql DB and then retrieve it,
it comes out without all the formatting, like new paragraphs and new
lines.
Can anyone tell me how you can capture the data entered into such a
field with all the formatting the user has entered like new paragraphs
etc?
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