# Dynamic text from database and textareas query

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-from-database-and-textareas-query/124016
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**Created:** [September 29, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-from-database-and-textareas-query/124016 "2004-09-29T11:30:16Z")
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### Author: ![Carlos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Carlos](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Carlos)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-from-database-and-textareas-query/124016/1 "2004-09-29T11:30:16Z")

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I have text being inserted into a textarea component dynamically from a MySQL database. The problem is getting characters like the ampersand (&) to show. Also the carriage returns are being processed twice (or the carriage return and newline characters are both being processed).

Is there any way around these problems?

Cheers,  
c