Textarea: Preserving Whitespace

A lot of the times when you let users post things using textareas, it becomes frustrating to lose whitespace when you display their posts (especially carriage returns).

Well, enter <pre>. This nifty little tag preserves any whitespace within the tags. However, there is one caveat. It preserves whitespace so well that it doesn't know how to word wrap. This is troublesome when your user continues to type in the textarea without hitting the carriage return. When displayed with the pre tags, the words are all on one long line.

Well, here's a nice little hack:

http://www.longren.org/2006/09/27/wrapping-text-inside-pre-tags/


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