# Getting a form to insert \<br\> tags in a textbox?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-form-to-insert-br-tags-in-a-textbox/184102>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [April 2, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-form-to-insert-br-tags-in-a-textbox/184102 "2006-04-02T00:18:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-form-to-insert-br-tags-in-a-textbox/184102/1 "2006-04-02T00:18:34Z")

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I’ve got a multi-line textfield form in an HTML page which sends the contents to a PHP file. Problem is, the text it sends to the PHP file doesn’t have \<br\> tags where the user put line-breaks.

Is there a way I can have the form send \<br\> tags wherever there’s line-breaks? Or can PHP somehow insert them?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![bwh2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@bwh2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bwh2)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-form-to-insert-br-tags-in-a-textbox/184102/2 "2006-04-02T00:28:35Z")

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use [nl2br](http://us3.php.net/nl2br).

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**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-form-to-insert-br-tags-in-a-textbox/184102/3 "2006-04-02T00:57:08Z")

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Thanks! 😃

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**Author:** ![bwh2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@bwh2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bwh2)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-form-to-insert-br-tags-in-a-textbox/184102/4 "2006-04-03T19:01:01Z")

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no problem. you might also want to check out [this thread](http://kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=213764) and create a custom nl2p function.