TEXTAREA rendering

[VanderHart, Robert]

Good morning,

I'm developing a web form so our staff members can author meeting minute.
The form consists of several TEXTAREA elements for individual paragraphs.
When the form is submitted, the rendered minutes appear on the next screen.
You can see the form at 
http://library.umassmed.edu/~rvanderh/minutemanager.cfm.  

I would like to have one large TEXTAREA element for the "body" of the
minutes, so that when you press Enter the equivalent of the BR element is
inserted.  Right now when you press Enter in the TEXTAREA it's ignored and
does not render, so I have to use the much-less elegant method of a separate
TEXTAREA for each paragraph.  Since I don't want to require our staff to
know any HTML to use this form, such as typing BR or P to make a new
paragraph, I'm wondering if there is any way to make paragraphs render from
a single TEXTAREA?


Robert J. Vander Hart
Electronic Resources Librarian
The Lamar Soutter Library
University of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue N
Worcester  MA  01655

Voice: (508) 856-3290
Fax: (508) 856-5899
Email: Robert.VanderHart at umassmed.edu
Web: http://library.umassmed.edu