BR tag appearing in TEXTAREA in HTML email

[USBobbie]

I use a TEXTAREA field in my form. In the emailed html I have the following so that the emailed form looks just like the form on the site:

<textarea rows="10" cols="50">$instructions</textarea>

The text that is returned contains the html break tag wherever the ENTER key was pressed.

asdf<br />
asdf<br />
etc...

It looks correct if I simply use the $instructions field inside a P tag. How can I remove these tags so that the text looks like it did when it was entered originally - like this:

asdf
asdf
etc...

[russellr]

Hi,

Use the P tag instead of a TEXTAREA.

We'll improve this in a later version to recognize the TEXTAREA and then not replace the newlines with BR tags.

[USBobbie]

OK. I'll just do that for now. Thanks... I hope this fix is on your list though. I knew the P tag would work, but I think it looks much cleaner, and takes up less page space if it is in the TEXTAREA. Thanks for the speedy response.

[USBobbie]

I decided to simply use CSS to put a border around my text instead of waiting on the TEXTAREA solution. The beauty of the TEXTAREA is that it is a fixed size and it has as scrollbar. But this will work for now.

 border: 1px solid #0047a2;
 padding: 3px;