title: MYSQL PHP Save linebreaks in textarea for later display
body: <p>I am collecting text from a textarea.  The text has line breaks in it.  I then save it to a database.  </p>
  
  <p>However when I retrieve it from the database and display it back in a textarea for editing, the line breaks are gone and the text turns into one long run-on string.</p>
  
  <p>I would like the line breaks originally there to reappear. How can I make the line breaks appear as they should when inserted back into a textarea?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Note:</strong> I <em>cannot</em> just convert them to a <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> because this is going <strong>inside a textarea</strong> where <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> elements would not get rendered, but just written out as text. I want the actual line breaks.</p>