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PHP PHP Basics (Retired) PHP Datatypes Strings

Posted by Kartikey Shahi
Kartikey Shahi
Courses Plus Student 2,002 Points

why i m not getting line breaks after first string ?

<?php $user_name = "ABC \n"; $user_pro = "Frontend Web Developer"; echo $user_name; echo $user_pro; ?>

4 Answers

Kai Nightmode
Kai Nightmode
37,045 Points

If the output display is a web page you would need to wrap the output in PRE tags to enable regular line breaks. For example...

<pre>
ABC\n
Frontend Web Developer
</pre>

Otherwise it may be easier to use a BR tag instead of a newline indicator. For example...

ABC<br>
Frontend Web Developer

Cheers!

Kartikey Shahi
Kartikey Shahi
Courses Plus Student 2,002 Points

thanx but what pre is ?

Kai Nightmode
Kai Nightmode
37,045 Points

I'm not sure what you mean. Can you rephrase "...what is ?"

Kartikey Shahi
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Kartikey Shahi
Courses Plus Student 2,002 Points
Kartikey Shahi
Kartikey Shahi
Courses Plus Student 2,002 Points

pre ?

Kai Nightmode
Kai Nightmode
37,045 Points

Ah right! PRE is an HTML element for containing pre-formatted text. This means text inside a PRE element will retain spaces, tabs, and line breaks. This is very different than most HTML elements which ignore things like more than one sequential space.

The Mozilla Developer Network has more details on the PRE element if you are interested. There is also a good explanation of the PRE element at SitePoint.

Kartikey Shahi
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Kartikey Shahi
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Kartikey Shahi
Kartikey Shahi
Courses Plus Student 2,002 Points

thanx