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    copied!<p>For readability reasons , I have a code that looks like this :</p> <pre><code> &lt;textarea cols="50" rows="5" id="k99_brsa_settings[brsa_keep_settings_exp]" name="k99_brsa_settings[brsa_keep_settings_exp]" /&gt; &lt;?php echo $export; ?&gt; &lt;/textarea&gt; </code></pre> <p>I do not know how to represent / display <code>tabs</code> here , but it is actually like so :</p> <pre><code>[TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB]&lt;textarea cols="50" rows="5" id="k99_brsa_settings[brsa_keep_settings_exp]" name="k99_brsa_settings[brsa_keep_settings_exp]" /&gt; [TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB]&lt;?php echo $export; ?&gt; [TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB]&lt;/textarea&gt; </code></pre> <p>or better yet with an image ( code editor ) :</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bOVq4.jpg" alt="Code tabs in editor"></p> <p>The problem is , that those tabs appear in the Output like so :</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/L60Tq.jpg" alt="Tabs appear in textarea"></p> <p>and since those are DB entries, when I save , it actually CHANGES the entry (adds tabs and spaces )</p> <p>I know that when I change the code to a <code>one liner</code>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;textarea cols="50" rows="5" id="k99_brsa_settings[brsa_keep_settings_exp]" name="k99_brsa_settings[brsa_keep_settings_exp]" /&gt;&lt;?php echo $export; ?&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; </code></pre> <p>(image from code editor below )</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JRvrl.jpg" alt="Image with one liner"></p> <p>...there is no problem and no tabs / spaces .</p> <p>Is there any way to keep the tabs for readability AND eliminating those output tabs and spaces ? Does the <code>&lt;textarea&gt;</code> TAGS always HAVE to end after the output without spaces </p>
 

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