Line breaks in forum posts

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I've had this problem where the posts I make will have line breaks where 
the text is wrapped. Ordinarily is isn't a problem really, other than it will 
make posts twice as long lengthwise, problems exist when using BBCode 
tags, images and links will not be parsed correctly if the URI spans the 
text area wrap. I've also noticed this with other users, although theirs are 
a bit longer. 

The problem even occurs if text is pasted into the textarea then copied, 
there will be line breaks where the text is wrapped. It seems like the 
script is somehow changing the behaviour of the textarea, I tried copying 
the <form> HTML code and put it into a PHP script and it worked fine. It 
looks like a compatibilty issue with the Microsoft scripting language, just 
like the the posting review error. To post images I had to use Virtual PC to 
use Internet Explorer.

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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Guest Group	Topic: Line breaks in forum posts Posted: January 27 2005 at 03:12
	I've had this problem where the posts I make will have line breaks where the text is wrapped. Ordinarily is isn't a problem really, other than it will make posts twice as long lengthwise, problems exist when using BBCode tags, images and links will not be parsed correctly if the URI spans the text area wrap. I've also noticed this with other users, although theirs are a bit longer. The problem even occurs if text is pasted into the textarea then copied, there will be line breaks where the text is wrapped. It seems like the script is somehow changing the behaviour of the textarea, I tried copying the <form> HTML code and put it into a PHP script and it worked fine. It looks like a compatibilty issue with the Microsoft scripting language, just like the the posting review error. To post images I had to use Virtual PC to use Internet Explorer.

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Guest Group	Posted: March 12 2005 at 04:50
	I'm not sure why it didn't when I copied the HTML. Posts by quite a few memebers including myself have <br/> tags in the post, regular posts do not have any <br/> tags in the "<!-- Message body -->". I'm not sure if you want to mess with the Web Wiz Forum code, but I think it's the "PHYSICAL" value in the textarea tag that is causing problems, I'm not sure why it doesn't affect Windows users users though. If you changed it to "virtual" it would appear the same but would submitted via post as one line unless line breaks have been entered.