Enable Break Line or New Line in Textarea when press enter

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How can i enable a Break Line or New Line in Textarea when i press the Enter Key ? So that if I press the ENTER it saves in the form of New Line in database.

I have already searched some topics but it hasn't helped me.

Here is my Textarea Code:

<textarea name="post" id="post"  class="valid Post_Text_Area" placeholder="Write something here..." ></textarea>

I tried this JS Code so far. but it hasn't worked for me

JavaScript: How to add line breaks to an HTML textarea?

So **PHP**, If I am correct, the **new line** is saved into the database by default when coming from a `textarea`. If you want to display it into `html`, try using the function `nl2br($text)` — Tikkes, Sep 10 '13 at 08:01
@Tikkes No PHP does not saves text coming from textarea in new lines. and nl2br() function is not working for me — Hassan Sardar, Sep 10 '13 at 08:10
As far as in my knowledge , some regular expression or jquery code will solve this problem — Hassan Sardar, Sep 10 '13 at 08:13
So show me how you save and display. Only those lines. Edit the post on top to include the save and display of the text saved in the db. And I will help you further. **edit** I also assume your database column is of type **TEXT** — Tikkes, Sep 10 '13 at 08:13

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 10 '13 at 08:26

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Newlines in textarea's are saved into the database by default.

To generate them as Html BR codes, use nl2br($yourTextVariable) $yourTextVariable will be the variable you fetch from database. so use it like this :

<?php echo nl2br($yourTextVariable); ?>

This transforms newline to <br />

edited Sep 10 '13 at 08:26

Hassan Sardar

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answered Sep 10 '13 at 08:21

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '13 at 08:29

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Another solution is put the output into <pre> tag or just style it with css white-space: pre. It will not swallow multiple spaces.

answered Sep 10 '13 at 08:29

kan

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– kan Sep 10 '13 at 08:38

Enable Break Line or New Line in Textarea when press enter

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