What do I have to use....

[Jayanath]

Hi,
Im getting a description of a book from a user by a text area in to a variable in a jsp page.I want to preview that description in a html page in a specific area.But when I preview it,its displaying that description as a single line in the preview page.

what is displaying=qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq

what I want is= qqqqqqqqqqqqqq
qqqqqqqqqqqqqq
qqqqqqqqqqqqqq
and so on.

Ive used a disabled text area but it didnt show me all of the description but a part of it.

Pls help me on this .
Thanks in advance for any comments.
Best regs,
Jayanath.

[Eric Pascarello]

Code?

[Jayanath]

<td height="28" valign="top">Description</td>
<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><textarea name="Description" rows="5" readonly id="Description"><%=Description %></textarea></td>

this code gave me the answer.
But is there anything else which I can use instead of a text area for view the description.Suppose if I want to print the description on a letter in a nicer manner.

by the way, is there any method to print a letter as same as displayed on the browser.

Regs,
Jayanath.

[Eric Pascarello]

you might try playing with this
https://coderanch.com/t/114515/HTML-JavaScript/prob-pre-tags

Eric