Thank you all for pointing me to the *right* direction!!! Now I really understand why and what I can do with the \n in php. :-)
cheers, feng ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugene Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 10:58 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] \n \t don't work!!! > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:48:56PM +1000, Wang Feng wrote: > : > : Ok, Now I see what happen (maybe). > : > : So, the "\n" is not for the browser output, but for the *view source*? So, > : it's different from the "echo <br>"? > : > : If so, what's the deal to do that? --- Makes it look nice if the user view > : the source code? > > When normally rendering HTML text, multiple continuous whitespace > characters (i.e. "\s+") as a single space. So HTML source code: > > ---------------------------------------- > <p>How are > you? > I am fine. > > What else is new? > </p> > ---------------------------------------- > > gets displayed as this: > > ---------------------------------------- > How ar you. I am fine. What else is new? > ---------------------------------------- > > To force a visual linebreak in rendered HTML pages, as you already > discovered you need to manually insert "<br>" tags. > > However, if you don't want to litter your HTML source code with a bunch > of gratuitous "<br>" tags all over the place, use the "<pre>" container > tag to make the browser render newlines as visual linebreaks. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
