[SOLVED] Preserving &nbsp In A Textarea

[phpQuestioner]

how can a preserve a " " in a textarea if I am echoing it with php into the textarea? right now it is just echoing a blank space - like this " "

 

 

all of my other html displays as plain text; except this   - it is getting interpreted as a white space (like text/html, instead of text/plain).

[monkeybidz]

Do you have some code to post as a sample?

[phpQuestioner]

it would be like this

 

<?php

$stringfromform = stripslashes($_POST['mytextstring']);

<textarea class="ta">
echo " $stringfromform";
</textarea>

?>

 

that's pretty much the way it is

 

[monkeybidz]

Try this:

<?php

$stringfromform = stripslashes($_POST['mytextstring']);

<textarea class="ta">
echo "      $stringfromform";
</textarea>

?>

[phpQuestioner]

monkeybidz - that still would not accomplish what I wanted to do; your not preserving the " " html character at all, you have just created spaces with your spacebar. also most browsers only interpret one empty space/whitespace, that is created with a spacebar; even if you create multiple spaces with your spacebar. i figured it out - but thanks for your help anyways.

 

<?php

$stringfromform = stripslashes($_POST['mytextstring']);

<textarea class="ta">
echo "&nbsp;$stringfromform";
</textarea>

?>

[monkeybidz]

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