I am saving this string into my sql db:

   $receipt.= "$tempQty $tempItem : $tempColor :<br> 
                        $tempService <br>
                        &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Item Total: $$tempPrice 
                        <br><br>";

This displays fine in a table:

3 Pants : White

Hem: $50.00
Press: $65.00

Item Total: $115.00

But when I display it in a textarea it shows up like this:

3 Pants : White <br>
                        Hem: $50.00
Press: $65.00 <br> 
                        Item Total: $115.00 <br><br>

How can I get the textarea to keep the formatting but not show the <br> tags.

CodePudding user response：

You would want to strip out the <br> tags and the extra space. Here's a way to do it by splitting the array by <br>, trimming the array parts, then joining it back together with \n.

<?php
$receipt = explode("<br>", $receipt);
foreach ($receipt as $n => $r) $receipt[$n] = trim($r);
$receipt = implode("\n", $receipt);
?>    

<textarea cols='60' rows='8'><?php echo $receipt;?></textarea>

CodePudding user response：

You can replace the
with 



Line Feed and Carriage Return are HTML entitieswikipedia. This way you are actually parsing the new line ("\n") rather than displaying it as text.

Example:

    <textarea cols='60' rows='8'>3 Pants : White one.&#13;&#10;&#13;&#10;Hem: $50.00</textarea>

<iframe name="sif1" sandbox="allow-forms allow-modals allow-scripts" frameborder="0"></iframe>

CodePudding user response：

Try this:

$textarea = str_replace('<br>', '\n\r', $textarea);