Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/21/06 21:08

Stephen Kay wrote:
> learning php here - I'm echoing some debug code, and I cannot seem to make
> the newline character work.
>
> For example, I tried this:
>
> echo "supposedly, this will \nbe on \nmultiple lines.";
>
> which, according to the php manual, should produce this:
>
> supposedly, this will
> be on
> multiple lines.
>
> But it doesn't work! It's all on the same line. What obvious thing am I
> missing?
>

Display your html source. You'll see the newlines there.

This isn't a PHP problem - it's how HTML works. Newline characters are
ignored. Instead, you need to use <br> to start a new line.
See the nl2br() function.

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