# Format text from a form

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/format-text-from-a-form/216648
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [February 19, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/format-text-from-a-form/216648 "2007-02-19T11:42:02Z")
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### Author: ![Ceejeeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Ceejeeb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ceejeeb)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/format-text-from-a-form/216648/1 "2007-02-19T11:42:02Z")

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I have a form on my site so people can post comments. At the moment the message box is a text area and its is just stored as text in th database. I need to be able to keep the formatting that they use in their message (eg line brakes etc).  
Im sure it can be done, any ideas?