I am creating a news publishing website and the only thing I can't do in the site is enter and show new-line.
There is a textarea in the site to write articles, if I press ENTER while I am typing, it will take me into a new line, but after having submitted all, and make query to mysql to pull and echo what I had typed in, the new line does not show up. All texts are next to each other. So, I was wondering if i could input and output newlines in textarea with the help of PHP?
分享 When you submit a form, you are submitting text.
When you put that text into an HTML document, it is HTML.
In HTML a new line is just a piece of white space with the same significance as a space or a tab.
If you want new lines to show up, then you need to with wrap them with markup that causes them to be rendered (such as a <pre> element or an element with the white-space property set to cause them to render) or you need to replace them with suitable markup.
A very primitive replacement would be PHP's nl2br function. A more advanced option would generate <p> elements and treat different numbers of sequential new lines differently (e.g. a Markdown parser such as the one used by Stackoverflow).
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