Converting textarea text into pure html?

[SC__Programmer]

I'm trying to change the textarea's value into pure html.

 

So like if a textarea has this,

Test

Test

I want to change it to html all on one link like this,

Test<br><br>Test

 

How would i do that?ive looked at WYSIWYG editors but they're to much coding for what i want.

[requinix]

Pure HTML for display purposes? Use CSS's white-space:pre.

 

Otherwise PHP has nl2br, which you can emulate using regular expressions in other languages.

[SC__Programmer]

That isnt working,ill explain it better

 

I have some HTML in a mysql database like <div>Test<br>Test</div>,i want to be able to display that like this,

<div>Test
Test</div>

Then save it back in the database like this,

<div>Test<br>Test</div>

[requinix]

Save two copies of the text: one without (or with minimal?) HTML and one fully translated into HTML. One gets edited and the other gets displayed.

[SC__Programmer]

How?

 

Im trying to make a homepage welcome thingy,in the admin panel you have a textarea box where you edit the text.when i load the value of the database(Test<br><br>Test) it shows up in the textarea as Test<br><br>Test,i want it to show up as

Test

Test

and when the user gets done editing its going to be like this

Edited

Edited

and when they push save i want it to convert to Edited<br><br>Edited so i can save it to the database.

[requinix]

How?

Are you storing the text in a database?

[bspace]

do you mean you want to use a WYSIWYG Editor on a form field?

 

if so have a look at ckeditor or tinymce

[haku]

Save the data as-is to the database. Before printing it to the screen, run the text through the php nl2br() function. When you are putting the data into a textarea, you won't have to do anything, as you save it in its original form in the database, so putting it back in a textarea will make it exactly the same as it was before it was saved.