jeff5656 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 (edited) When a user enters data into a text box, I want to retain those carriage returns. Therefore I use nl2br. The problem is that when they go to edit the data again, another carriage returns is added. How do I 1. allow carriage returns in a text box and 2. avoid duplicate carriage returns, which the nl2br solution will do? here's the code: <form> <textarea name="medications" value = <?php echo nl2br(stripslashes($rpw['meds']));?></textarea> Edited October 18, 2012 by jeff5656 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 nl2br appends <br> tags after newline characters so you do NOT wont to use it when displaying data in a textarea. Why don't you post your actual code? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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