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HTML is trimming my spaces help

So I have some PHP code that takes text from a mysql table and prints it to the screen with formatting. Problem is the spaces keep getting truncated when its formatted.

Like:

I like cookies.

They are tasty.

would come out as:I like cookies. They are tasty.

The formatting code just puts the text in tags and the text shows properly in the mysql database so I'm sure it's not that.

Both lines are part of the same entry. I tried messing with the CSS "white-space" attribute and the "pre" value properly shows line breaks but the text goes past the element's boundaries. I guess I could stick tags in between them, but then I'd be manipulating strings and I keep thinking theres a more simple solution.

Anyone know how to circumvent this?

jaymathew
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Use nl2br()

stymiee
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thanks, that worked

jaymathew
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This question has already been solved

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