loss of formatting in span

[Rimbuk]

I know this isn't directly FMPro related, but I have a text field in FMPro that loses all formatting when I put it in a browser if I use the <span> tag. When I use instant publishing, FMPro uses the <span> tag, but somehow breaks up the text with <br> whenever there is a line return. Is that being done through a script? How can I do that?

Using <textarea> keeps the formatting, but I want it to be read-only, which I don't think can be done in <textarea>. Is there a tag that will keep the formatting but will also make it read only?

Thanks for any help.

[Vaughan]

Formatting will be lost over the web unless the text has html cods embedded in it AND the field CDML tag has raw encoding selected ie., [FMP-Field: text, raw].