[Simon Lloyd]

You might try you using str replace and replace \n (i know what you said but give it a try! or \r), like this:

PHP Code:

var text = "this
is 
some
text "; 
var new_text = text.replace("<br />", "\n"); 
document.write(new_text); 


--------------- Added [DATE]1342295651[/DATE] at [TIME]1342295651[/TIME] ---------------

The picture of your database shows that each character is in a seperate row?