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You really shouldn't be putting anything that long in a query string in the first place. Look into using sessions to store data across pages instead. (This is assuming I understood the question right)

jay.lee 2010-09-27 02:56:39

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I would suggest installing a wysiwyg editor to make this easier for you, but i assume that would add some time for the learning curve.

The simplest tips I can give you is to set a CSS attribute for your textarea: white-space:pre so that when it gets submitted, all line breaks get sent as well. On your server side, you would need to use the nl2br() function, so that when it gets saved on your DB or wherever you store them, all line breaks are converted to HTML breaks.

For your additional reference, I had a similar question like this last year.

lock 2010-09-27 02:56:59

You might want to url encode the data prior to sending it across the URL.

Russell Dias 2010-09-27 02:59:30

+1 for stating something i forgot :P

lock 2010-09-27 03:06:16

Thanks... it put in the linebreak fine, but I have this in my css file :text-indent: 3em; , but the linebreak isnt indenting. Anything I can do about that? Thanks for the help

Preston 2010-09-27 03:34:58

or is there a way to indent the text in the field whenever the user hits enter?

Preston 2010-09-27 03:37:26

text-indent would only work at the beggining of each <p> tag. As mentioned above, a wysiwyg editor such as tinyMCE automatically generates new <p> tags for each newline so that would much help you instead of reinvinting the wheel.

lock 2010-09-27 04:28:01

allright thanks i got it working with tinyMCE!

Preston 2010-09-27 22:37:17

Answer 3

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urlencode the data in order to pass it via query string.

Andrew67 2010-09-27 03:03:16

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