I have a web site that is presenting data from fields in a Filemaker Database. FM 11 Server. When viewing the text in a browser it does not see the carriage returns. Is there a way to embed some html/php in the field so that the browser will add in carriage returns?

HTML ignores carriage returns.  Try Substitute(YourWebText; "¶"; "<br />")

Thanks but that doesn't work. I've tried PHP tags too and they just show as text. Anyone?

Why don't you zip a copy of your file with a few sample records and post it?

I couldn't find any way from anybody on how to type something into the text field that would be respected by a browser. But I did find a PHP function that does what I need.

 

So the original html/php code was: 

 

<dd><?php echo $record->getField("Field_Name"); ?></dd>

 

The revised code is:

 

<dd><?php echo nl2br($record->getField("Field_Name")); ?></dd>

 

which has the effect of rendering the breaks typed into the Filemaker text field in the browser.

you can use getFieldUnencoded in your php code to see the text with the html attributes

 

Martie

Thanks for the feedback.