format output from long field in Db

[firedreams50]

:confused;
can anyone tell me how to format a very long database field when output it to
page. everything works fine except it is one very long string and i'd like to
make it into several paragraphs. is there a way to put some break in the Db or
some nifty CF tag??
grateful in advance for any help.

[OldCFer]

Try putting <PRE> tags around it.

<PRE>
#LongText#
</PRE>

[firedreams50]

:D
thanks for the help!
someone had told me i should have my longtext field be all one long unbroken
line of text. but oyu're saying format it the way i want it to look on page and
then use the <pre> ?

[kyle969]

You can add <br> (or any other html) to the string in the database.

Also, beforeyou insert the text into the Db you could use:
#Replace(long_text,chr(13),'<br>','ALL')#