Text Area- Wrap Attribute

[Deepa Balasubramanayam]

Hi,
I use IE5. I entered four points in text area field . When I tried displaying it in another page there was no line break, instead all the 4 staments were grouped as a paragraph. I used wrap attribute, but it is not working.
<textarea name=test cols=40 rows=7 wrap=physical> </textarea>
Please give me suggestions.
Thanks
Deepa

[Randall Twede]

i just looked int the html reference. it says the possible values of wrap are:
hard
soft
off

no mention of physical. it also says wrap is deprecated and not to use it.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/attr_textarea.asp

[Bear Bibeault]

How are you displaying what returns on the subsequent page? If the "physical" attribute is doing what you expect (see previous post) and inserting "\n" characters at your line breaks, simply displaying that string on an HTML page will not result in display line breaks. HTML treats "\n" as whitespace. If this is the problem, you'll probably need to replace all instances of "\n" with "<br>" (or "<br />" for XHTML).
hth,
bear

[Randall Twede]

oh i didnt understand what he meant.