<br> in html input textboxes?

[andr.in]

:alien: OK... this is kinda wierd question but what's the symbol combination in <input> textboxes in a html form for line breaks... ya know.. in html they're <br>, in text files it's \n etc...

For example if I have an e-mail form and when the users prsses enter to make a line break I want it to dispay a line break in the e-mail message too... e.g. with using ereg_repalce() in php but I don't know what to replace with <br>.. I hope you get what I mean...

:b: :smirk:

[Marz]

$trimmed = eregi_replace("[\n\t\013\r]+", "<br>", $posted);

Now, the only thing this doesn't work for.. Is a line feed after a line feed.. Aka.. 2 returns... I don't know why yet... But this will replace any text input returns to <br>

[andr.in]

oh cool... thx marzman!
It works!

i think the problem with more than one line breaks is that it searches out one or more line break (+ at the end) and then repalces it with only one <br> so 2 becomes one... I think =)

Well.. I don't need multiple <br> anyway.. who needs them.. I'm fine with this! Thx again! :)

[Marz]

No problem man.. :) If you can't read one line feed.. Just read all the bastards! *lmao*..

I'm going to try that + idea.. I think you are correct about that.. Excellent thinking my friend, excellent.

[mistoflight]

$trimmed = eregi_replace("[\n\t\013\r]+", "<br>", $posted);

Now, the only thing this doesn't work for.. Is a line feed after a line feed.. Aka.. 2 returns... I don't know why yet... But this will replace any text input returns to <br>

Can you explain what all of the items in the replace file are? ([\n\t\013\r]+). I am getting a <br> at the beginning of paragraph.

[hl]

i think all you need is \n and \r, they are both line breaks.

\t is tab, don't know what \013 is.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Yeah, \n, \r, and \n\r (I think that's what the last one was… I may be wrong) are all you need.

Also, why do you use <br> rather than <br />?

If you want to get really fancy, the developer of WP wrote this:
http://photomatt.net/scripts/autop