Newline \ Break command

Anon

I have the below code to output the lastest news...

<?php

do {

printf ("

<tr><td>%s   %s</td></tr>
<tr><td>%s</td></tr>\n",

$myrow["date"], $myrow["user"], $myrow["news"]);

} while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result));

echo "</table>\n";

While this is all well and good, it just puts the news in the format

Name Date
News here
Name Date
News here

... and so on ...

Is there any way to put a break between each of the items? I can't seem to find a command similar to \n to do it.

I tried ?> <?php but that doesn't work.

Thats for any help.

Anon

Try:

<?php

do {

printf ("

<tr><td>%s %s</td></tr>
<tr><td>%s</td></tr>\n",

$myrow["date"], $myrow["user"], $myrow["news"]);

} while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result));

echo "</table>\n";

This may solve the problem, be aware though Netscape does not renrer new Paragraphs at the beginning of a new cell...

An alternative would be to have a empty table cell spaced out with a &nbsp to give it space...

Anon

one will only put it on the next line down two tags

Anon

Thanks, once I'd spotted that it helped, tho the actual code is

<?php

do {

printf ("

<tr><td>%s %s</td></tr>
<tr><td>%s</td></tr>\n",

$myrow["date"], $myrow["user"], $myrow["news"]);

} while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result));

echo "</table>\n";

Unless you close the tag it doesn't work.

Thanks

Anon

It wasn't that, tho its a good point 🙂

going ?> <?php will just generate errors as it splits the flow. It can probably be solved, but not by me, and the works well 🙂

Anon

Thanks for the pointer about netscape as well, my site isn't very Netscape friendly anyways. As is related to various other sites that arn't theres not much point.

Two years ago I used Netscape, but I also use the Zone, a great MS invention, of course, it doesn't like Netscape so I had to switch.

Anon

Now that I look at the code again why in the world are you using tags when you can simply put a blank row between each row like

printf ("

<tr><td>%s %s</td></tr>
<tr><td>%s</td></tr>
<tr><td> /tr> \n",

$myrow["date"], $myrow["user"], $myrow["news"]);

Anon

That's flagrantly illegal html: you can't have overlapped tags like that:

The reason this works in IE and doesn't in NS is that they take different approaches to handling invalid html. It's a pretty bad idea to purposely generate invalid html because a particular version of a particular browser doesn't throw it out...

In regard to your original question, you can either put in two breaks (the first one doesn't show because the browser is inserting a break at the end of the table anyway) or else use a blank row as was already suggested. Either of these avoids the nonstandard-tag problem.

Anon

Although having the closing tag() for the in the next cell is an illegal syntax, having an empty cell is hardly good html. Especially as it would not be drawn by the browser unless it has something within (  would suffice.)... I agree that double breaks would be a good solution to the problem though it would only create the same effect as a single . I haven't had to close a tag unless I have been writing for XML - In which case you would have to create the combination in each cell even though paragraphs aren't part of well formed XML anyway.