Preserve line breaks with htmlentities?

Question

In a form that I'm building, I have `textareas` which will include a nice amount of text, with line breaks included, such as: Sentence one Sentence two I am posting this to my form by using `htmlentities`, ex: ``` . htmlentities($_POST['textarea']) . ``` This however, produces the following in the email (HTML email) that gets sent by the form: Sentence one Sentence two Is there anyway to preserve line breaks with `htmlentities`?

Accepted Answer

Use `nl2br()` which converts ` ` to `
`: ``` . nl2br(htmlentities($_POST['textarea'])) . ```

Preserve line breaks with htmlentities?

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