> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:28:19 +0100
> From: joc...@iamjochem.com
> To: stut...@gmail.com
> CC: aj...@alumni.iu.edu; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Line Break Problem
>
> Stuart schreef:
> > 2009/3/9 Alice Wei <aj...@alumni.iu.edu>
> >
> >> I have a question regarding using line breaks in PHP. I have the code
> >> something like:
> >>
> >> echo "1" . "\t " . $x . "\t" . $y . "\r\n";
> >>
> >> When I run the code, it looks like a whole blob of text, but when I use
> >> "View Source", the line breaks are formatted then correctly.
> >> Anyone can please tell me if this is what this is supposed to be?
> >> If so, how can I get the user to see the line break as they are, do I have
> >> to use <br>?
> >
>
> you can also wrap the output in question in a <pre> tag:
>
> <pre>
> 1 X Y
> 2 X Y
> </pre>
>
> alternatively use the nl2br() function ... but that won't help
> with displaying the tabs.
>
> note that there is a difference between the output of your script
> (which you can view using 'View Source' when the output is sent to
> the browser) and the representation of that same source
> (by which I mean how the the source is rendered [in the browser, in this
> case).
>
> HTML rendering ignores tabs, carriage returns and multiple consecutive spaces
> found in the source (with the exception of the <pre> tag, possibly the <code>
> tag,
> additionally the CSS attribute 'whitespace', IIRC, can be used to force
> rendering
> all whitespace chars.
Hi, all:
Thanks to all who replied. It looks like that a simple <pre> tag works great.
Looks like I didn't realize that \r\n does not reflect itself to the screen.
Alice
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