Line Breaks???

janet287

Can anyone explain to me why the code below isn't working? I am attaching the screen shot of the results - but I am getting one big string on text... shouldn't the \n be creating a line break between each student and date combination? What I want is:
testing and then the date drop-downs
testing and then the date drop-downs
etc....

foreach($students as $student) {
echo 'testing'.print_date_selector("startday", "startmonth", "startyear");
echo "\n";
}

I must be doing something wrong. I am new to PHP and it seems like this should be working.

coldwerturkey

afaik it has something to do with the encoding. on php.net they write line breaks like that and show the result/output as a new line but its never worked for me,

if you take a look at your source code you'll notice that the \n has created a new linebreak in the source, (not the actual output/result)

until someone more knowedlgeable than me replys, you can simply use

NogDog

In HTML, a newline is treated as a word space except in an element such as <pre> or any other block-level element to which you have assigned a style of "white-space: pre;". So if you want the newlines to be treated as newlines, either modify your HTML mark-up and/or CSS styling, or else change the "\n" to " \n" (or " \n" if outputting XHTML).

PHP provides the [man]nl2br/man function to change all newlines to " " tags in the supplied string.

harmor

If I remember correctly using '\n' will add line breaks in the source code. If you were to use just ' ' it'll look nice on the site but if view the source code it'll show all the data on one line.