PHP provides a useful function nl2br that inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines \n in a string. Many times we want to utilize this functionality in JavaScript, although there is no nl2br equivalent JavaScript function but we can create a custom function using regular expressions. Below is JavaScript equivalent for nl2br.
function nl2br(str, is_xhtml) {
var breakTag = (is_xhtml || typeof is_xhtml === 'undefined') ? '<br />' : '<br>';
return (str + '').replace(/([^>\r\n]?)(\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n)/g, '$1' + breakTag + '$2');
}
I have a textarea control in my php/mysql based web site and it allow the user to enter text
in
different
lines
as this
example
then I write info in mysql database, but when I read and show information in a TD on another page, the line return are lost and all the text is on a single line.
Can you help me with this ?
Do you need more detail to help me?
Thanks a lot !
use nl2br function when you print information on your page. E.g
echo nl2br($your_multi_line_text);