# Mailer - New lines within textarea problem **URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailer-new-lines-within-textarea-problem/297627 **Category:** programming **Created:** [October 6, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailer-new-lines-within-textarea-problem/297627 "2009-10-06T05:49:18Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1

### Author: ![GGMcGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@GGMcGee](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/GGMcGee) #### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailer-new-lines-within-textarea-problem/297627/1 "2009-10-06T05:49:18Z")

Got a php contact form set up and I’ve made the email it sends formatted with HTML. ```auto $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . " "; $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8" . " "; $headers .= "From: $email" . " "; ``` ```auto $body .= ""; $body .= ""; $body .= //whatever $body .= ""; ``` ```auto $body = wordwrap($body, 70); $body = stripslashes($body); ``` It’s all working except for one small problem that seems to be to do with the html formatting of the email… **When the user types a message into the textarea message box, the email sent doesn’t show where they have hit enter and gone to a new line. So their whole message is displayed in one long line, or paragraph, with no spacing.** Does anyone know why this is happening? When I don’t format it in html the spaces the user creates by entering down however many lines are displayed fine, but of course I can’t make the font all pretty if I don’t… =\