Title: [Plugin: Participants Database] Textarea formatting
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Participants Database] Textarea formatting

 *  [bw3em](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bw3em/)
 * (@bw3em)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-participants-database-textarea-formatting/)
 * Please can the textareas pay attention to line breaks that the participant enters?
   It’s so frustrating that I – as admin – have to Use Rich Text Editor to format
   all records. I would rather turn this off and have line breaks allowed. Please…
   pretty please, is there a way?? Em
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/participants-database/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/participants-database/)

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 *  [samrhein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samrhein/)
 * (@samrhein)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-participants-database-textarea-formatting/#post-2957886)
 * I had this problem as well. I solved it by changing the line
    `$values[] = self::
   prep_field_for_display($participant[$column->name], $column->form_element);` 
   in participants-database.php (plugin version 1.4.4) to: `$values[] = nl2br(self::
   prep_field_for_display($participant[$column->name], $column->form_element));`(
   just adding the nl2br() function) In order to output html line breaks on the 
   List Participants page. Good luck!

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 * [textarea](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/textarea/)

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 * Last reply from: [samrhein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samrhein/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-participants-database-textarea-formatting/#post-2957886)
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