Why does PHP echo’d text lose its formatting?

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Use nl2br().

New lines are ignored by browser. That’s why you see all text without line breaks. nl2br() converts new lines to <br /> tags that are displayed as new lines in browsers.

If you want to display your text in <textarea>, you don’t need to convert all new lines to <br />. Anyway, if you do it… you will see “<br />“s as text in new lines places.

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