\n ...?

[Anon]

Okay, I was copying an example out of my book and I know what everything else is... but then I see this "\n" in there... what the heck is that? I don't remember reading what it was! AHHH! lol.

Kenny

[johnh]

The \n is for a "newline". Output in most web browsers don't read it. The norm is <br> for a browser. But lets say you are sending an email in text mode, not MIME. You'll need to use the \n in order to get a newline.

John

[Anon]

Newline - as in "start a new line", as used by such weird and wonderful languages as Perl, C, and PHP!

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

[andriani97]

I use \n and it didn't work, I still had the whole text in one line 🙁 Anybody know why? TIA 🙂

[Anon]

Yes, HTML uses <br> to indicate line breaks. If you view the source generated, you'll see line breaks in the HTML source code where you put \n characters. But the HTML standard says browsers are supposed to pretty much ignore them except in certain situations; which is why HTML has a <br> tag.

This is substantially what John said earlier.