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my words aint wraping on page?

ok basicly usually the text will fit within a given textbox when posted such as on here... but mine is not :S

below i have posted my page where its displayed... and after that the textbox where its added,,,, can any 1 see a reason why the text is just going in a streight line and not starting a new line when it runs out of space?

the output is via ?php

$message=$getreplies3['post'];

$message= BBCode($message);
$id2=$getreplies3['postid'];

?>
<?php echo $message?>

<td height="168" valign='top'><div align="center"><?php echo $getreplies3['author'];?><?php $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM useronline WHERE(user='".$getreplies3['author']."')");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
 
$last_active = time() - $row['timestamp'];
}
 
if($last_active < 300) {
 
   echo '<img src="http://www.runningprofiles.com/images/useron.gif" width="12" height="11" />';
   
}
else
{  echo '<img src="http://www.runningprofiles.com/images/useroff.gif" width="12" height="11" />'; }
?></div>
  <p align="center">
  <?
   $query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE Username = '".$getreplies3['author']."' LIMIT 1"; 
if ($result = mysql_query($query)){
    if (mysql_num_rows($result)) {
        $array = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
        $image = $array['image'];
		$postnum = $array['post_count'];
 
echo "<img src=\"http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/images/mini/$image\" border=\"1\"  />";?><br />
<span class="style7"> Posts: <?php echo $postnum;?> </span>
 
 
<p> <?
}
}?> 
</p></td>
<td valign='top'>
  <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="3%" rowspan="2"><div align="center"><img src="http://www.runningprofiles.com/images/posted.jpg" alt="foot" width="17" height="33" /></div></td>
      <td width="97%"><a href='index.php?page=message&amp;forum=<? echo $forum; ?>&amp;id=<? echo $gettopic3[postid] ?>'><strong>RE: <? echo $gettopic3[title] ?></strong></a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><span class="style7">Replied
          <? $dbtime=$gettopic3['showtime']; $time = date("F j Y, g:i a", $dbtime); ?>
          <?  $dbtime = $gettopic3['lastrepliedto']; 
         $time = date("F j, Y, g:i a", $dbtime); 
 
 
// Get current timestamp
$intTime = time();
// Calculate difference
$intDiff = $intTime - $dbtime;
 
// Check time
switch($intDiff)
{
      case ($intDiff < 60):
                echo "<strong>Less than a minute ago</strong>";
                break;
        case ($intDiff < 3600):
                echo "<strong>Less than an hour ago</strong>";
                break;
        case ($intDiff < 7200):
                echo "<strong>One hour ago</strong>";
				break;
        case ($intDiff < 10800):
                echo "<strong>Two hours ago</strong>";
				break;
		case ($intDiff < 86400):
                echo "<strong>Today</strong>";
				break;
		case ($intDiff < 172800):
                echo "<strong>Yesterday</strong>";
                break;
        default:
               echo $time;
			   
}
?>
      </span></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td rowspan="3">&nbsp;</td>
      <td><hr color="#CCCCCC" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td align="left" valign="top"><?php
 
   $message=$getreplies3['post'];
 
   $message= BBCode($message);
   $id2=$getreplies3['postid'];
 
   ?>
        <?php echo $message?></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td   align="right" valign="top"><?php 
 
            include 'editmessage2.php'; 
//Now increase it:
$CONT_ID++;
         
        ; ?></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
 </td>

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runnerjp

ASKER

here is the textbox the text is written in

<textarea id="inputforum" class="inputforum" name='yourpost' rows='5' cols='40'><?php if(isset($_POST['quote'])) {
                        $quote= $_POST['quote'];
						   $query = "SELECT * FROM forumtutorial_posts where postid=$quote"; 
if ($result = mysql_query($query)){
    if (mysql_num_rows($result)) {
        $array = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);}
      
?>
[quote] Originally Posted by:<strong><?php echo $array['author'];?></strong>
<br><?
echo $array['post']; }}?> [/quote]</textarea>

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fourice

Try adding this method:
function br2nl($string)
{
return preg_replace('/\<br(\s*)?\/?\>/i', "\n", $string);
}
And use it like: echo br2nl($array['post']);
A textarea needs newlines (\n) for a new line.

runnerjp

ASKER

i think the problem is if a litter is held down for so long e.g hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh like so... how could i stop this?

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scrathcyboy

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