I query an
SQLite database using PHP code on a webpage. One of the fields in the database
is a "Note" field, where notes have been entered without any HTML code to
format the text. When I display the notes on a webpage, I want to preserve
the line breaks and paragraphs as they were typed. Since there are no
<br> line break nor <p> paragraph tags on
the page, I could display the text as typed using the
pre tag, but the
problem with just using that tag is that in cases where the a line is very
long, someone would have to scroll far to the right to see the entire line
on the webpage, if I just used the pre tag. However, I can specify a style
for the pre tag that will result in the text wrapping at the right-edge of
the browser window. E.g. <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">
. Or, if I don't want the text displayed in the monospaced default
font for the pre tag, I can apply the style to the
<div> tag,
instead. E.g.: <div style="white-space: pre-wrap">.
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