how to maintain paragraph?

i have a problem when i insert some articles which includes paragraph to database at the time of retrieval it display article but without paragraph. so it look like dirty w开发者_Go百科riting on the page. so is there any trick or code for save article with paragraph & at time of display it shows as it is.

HTML ignores carriage returns and collapses multiple spaces. You have to insert the appropriate tags, such as <br>. Have a look at nl2br().