PHP displaying Text using line break

Question

I used

<textarea name="question" class="input" width="250"></textarea>

to add data in sql. i used multi line , in database also data is stored in multi line only.

Then i used

$question=$row['1'];
echo "<tr><td colspan='5'>",$row[1],"</td></tr>

to display the data but the data are displaying in single line . how to make it appear in mulit line like as in database.

@VainFellowman regarding code he wants to display it in a table cell - so nl2br() should be fine. — thedom
– thedom, Commented Jul 27, 2012 at 13:46

Nimit Dudani · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-27 13:47:29Z

5

Correct

echo "<tr><td colspan='5'>",$row[1],"</td></tr>

To

echo "<tr><td colspan='5'>".nl2br($row[1])."</td></tr>";

answered Jul 27, 2012 at 13:47

Nimit Dudani

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user <pre> tag or try nl2br()

Matt Humphrey · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-27 13:46:32Z

2

You need to convert the newlines to HTML line breaks. Try PHP's nl2br:

echo "<tr><td colspan='5'>".nl2br($row[1])."</td></tr>

answered Jul 27, 2012 at 13:46

Matt Humphrey

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nl2br($row[1], /*is_xhtml*/ false), HTML 4 does not allow closing slash <br />.