[RESOLVED] How To: keep source clean?

spiritssight

Hello,

here is a strange question; How can I keep my source (when you right click on a webpage and view source nice and neet?

in my source php files I keep the stuff I want on one line in the view your source it shows as one long line and if wraps on it still is as if all of it was writen together,

I look at the source of that so I can see if things change the way I want in there too

any ideas of how to keep this nice also?

Sincerely,
Christopher

benracer

1) indent your html to make it look good to the eye and it is also easier to view where you havent closed off the tags.
2) Use a seperate css stylesheet and link it in the header
3) with the php providing there are no linebrakes above or below the php then there will be no indication of it ever being there in the source

spiritssight

Thanks, I was more or less talking about when you are coding in php and it shows in the view source it shows up on one line, I figure the answer out, use \n at the end of the one you want to be on its own line in the view source

like all my links that are being contraled through php would be on one line where now its not

also I learned that you can not use \r or \n with the ' ' it only works with " "

say if you did:
$test = 'test\rtest'; this would not work and this would show it all on one line and show \r with it also
$test = "test\rtest1"; this would work and show test on one line and test1 on the next line

Hope this helps others.

Sincerely,
Christopher

Valdhor

This is documented in the manual at http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

From this page:

Note: Unlike the two other syntaxes, variables and escape sequences for special characters will not be expanded when they occur in single quoted strings.

spiritssight

I thought it was but could not find the link, thanks!

Sincerely,
Christopher