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If you don't see the line breaks, the data is being saved or submitted without them. What attributes on the textarea do you have set?<br />
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wrap=&quot;off&quot; is what I would recommend.<br />
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&lt;TEXTAREA WRAP = sWrap ... &gt;&nbsp; <br />
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sWrap = String that specifies one of the following values:<br />
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soft - Text is displayed with wordwrapping and submitted without carriage returns and line feeds.<br />
hard - Text is displayed with wordwrapping and submitted with soft returns and line feeds. <br />
off - Wordwrapping is disabled. The lines appear exactly as the user types them. <br />
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If you don't see the line breaks, the data is being saved or submitted without them. What attributes on the textarea do you have set?


wrap="off" is what I would recommend.




<TEXTAREA WRAP = sWrap ... > 

sWrap = String that specifies one of the following values:

soft - Text is displayed with wordwrapping and submitted without carriage returns and line feeds.
hard - Text is displayed with wordwrapping and submitted with soft returns and line feeds.
off - Wordwrapping is disabled. The lines appear exactly as the user types them.



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I am taking information on a form using text areas, when i output this information the new line characters are not being displayed, how do i display this information exactly as it is inputted?
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I am taking information on a form using text areas, when i output this information the new line characters are not being displayed, how do i display this information exactly as it is inputted?

displaying new line characters

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