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DIV contenteditable and new lines

I'm using XPath to get div contenteditable's content and insert it in DB. But when I output the content there are no new lines.

$divs = $xpath->query('//div');
foreach($divs as $book) {
$text = nl2br($book->textContent);
}

What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance :)

Solution

  • $book->textContent strips all markup from the content [1], such as <div> which are naturally inserted when you hit enter on an contenteditable-Element. Therefore all this function returns is a concatenation of pure text.

    I'm not sure what your goal is, but you might look into $your_DOMDocument->saveHTML($book). This will return the actual HTML of each $book including the surrounding <div>.

    [1]: see the DOM Specifications