How do I remove <br /> tags from textarea data?

[iGuest 3]

Okay, I'll try to get straight to the point:

I have a form on a PHP enabled subdomain that (thanks to 101) both displays submitted data for the user's convenience and posts that data to an email address.

 

Here's the situation:

Data posted within the textarea field of the form shows up exactly as submitted (with all linebreaks and spaces between paragraphs intact) except that wherever a linebreak occurs, there's an annoying <br /> tag. It all looks rather messy, especially when the sender uses lots linebreaks of paragraphs. I wouldn't mind so much if the data were for my eyes only but it's actually being sent to a client's Hotmail address, as it's his site that I'm working on.

 

Other than posting the form's data in HTML format (instead of plaintext, as is presently the case), is there any way to get rid of those tags? :idea: A PHP function perhaps?

[iGuest 3]

for php you can try htmlspecialchars()