Using PHP to add line breaks to TextArea

Question

I want to add Line break in a textarea placeholder using php.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html style="height: 100%;">

<head>
  //stuff
</head>

<body>
  //stuff
  <div id="editContainer">
      <textarea id="note" name="note" placeholder="Placeholder Text"></textarea>
  </div>
  //stuff
</body>
</html>

Are you okay with doing this using javascript ? – jophab May 24 '16 at 02:44 — jophab, May 24 '16 at 02:44
@jophab i prefer php but go ahead and answer – cash.io.co May 24 '16 at 02:48 — cash.io.co, May 24 '16 at 02:48

Akaanksh Raj · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-24T02:44:46.057

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This Should Work:

<textarea placeholder="<?php
$data = 'Line Number One,-,Line Number Two';
$ndata = str_replace(',-,',"\n",$data);
print "$ndata"; ?>"></textarea>

You can change the ,-, in the third line to anything that suits you.

Here's some pointers:

Make sure you rename your file to .php
Make sure you use a local server or online server to parse the code.
HTML Comments are Written as  not as //comment(that's JavaScript)

edited May 24 '16 at 02:44

answered May 24 '16 at 02:39

Akaanksh Raj

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this won't do anything but add the literal text "\n" to the placeholder – I wrestled a bear once. May 24 '16 at 02:48
@PootieTang It doesn't add a literal \n to the placeholder, it adds a new line. So the output is like [this](https://jsfiddle.net/ds4vsvrn/1/) (separated onto two lines). – 4castle May 24 '16 at 02:53
ah you're right, but that still doesn't add a linebreak to the textarea – I wrestled a bear once. May 24 '16 at 02:56
And @cash.io.co wants to probably use php to make IE happy. – Akaanksh Raj May 24 '16 at 02:57
php has absolutely nothing to do with ie.. ie could care less how the page was rendered – I wrestled a bear once. May 24 '16 at 02:58
@DavidvleggerWenher It's working in IE11 for me, but you're correct that it won't be a cross-browser solution. See [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7312623/insert-line-break-inside-placeholder-attribute-of-a-textarea). The most consistent way to accomplish it is to use a div that overlays the textarea. – 4castle May 24 '16 at 03:00

Using PHP to add line breaks to TextArea

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