https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/strip-line-breaks-during-submission Gravity Support Forums Topic: Strip line-breaks during submission? en-US Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:05:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/strip-line-breaks-during-submission#post-67061 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:42:17 +0000 David Peralty 67061@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yes, it would go in your functions.php file. And you might want to put a space in the second area for your preg_replace. Also, what is the question mark in your carriage return and new line call? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/strip-line-breaks-during-submission#post-67058 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:32:03 +0000 thirdriver 67058@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>So do I past the code in functions.php?<br /> <pre><code>add_action(&quot;gform_pre_submission&quot;, &quot;strip_linebreaks&quot;); function strip_linebreaks($form){ $_POST[&quot;input_11&quot;] = preg_replace(&quot;/\r?\n/&quot;, &quot;&quot;, ($_POST[&quot;input_11&quot;]); }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/strip-line-breaks-during-submission#post-67047 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:57:03 +0000 thirdriver 67047@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I know it's not "ideal" - but for this application it's really not an issue passing it as a query string. The only real issue is the line breaks! Thanks for the script though - I'll let you know how it turns out </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/strip-line-breaks-during-submission#post-67046 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:53:11 +0000 David Peralty 67046@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi there, I don't know that you should be passing a paragraph of text through a query string as there are potential issues with that, and the string, despite reformatting won't ever get those line breaks back. You could try using the gform_pre_submission hook to strip them out using something like the script found here:</p> <p><a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php" rel="nofollow">http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php</a></p> <p>I think they might be hiding as /r and /r/n in the text that is submitted, but I'm not certain. Instead of replacing them with html line breaks, you would want to replace them just with a space or something. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/strip-line-breaks-during-submission#post-67044 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:44:01 +0000 thirdriver 67044@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Is there a way to strip line breaks from a field before I use the data submitted?</p> <p>We've got a basic form - but it has to pass alot of information as a query string, and there is a paragraph area that often people type "enter/enter" to get two line breaks. Is there a function I can use to REMOVE those during submission? </p>