From:	Doug Tabacco	Date:	Sun Apr 13 13:22:15 2008
Subject:	Re: Help!

I think what you're running into is some confusion about newlines.

\n prints a newline in the output, yes.  But since HTML ignores most  
whitespace (which includes \r and \n, you need to add a <br> tag as  
well.

On Apr 13, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Bryan wrote:

> one more question....  <br> makes a new line, and \n APPEARS to do  
> nothing.
> do I even need to bother with the \n?  (see, line 3 I didn't put the  
> \n and
> still got the blank line, so is there any situation where the \n  
> would NEED
> to be there?)
>
> I did the following:
>
> <?php
> print "line 1 br br nl <br><br>\n";
> print "line 2 br nl <br>\nline 3 br <br>";
> print "line 4 nl \n";
> print "line 5 br <br>";
> ?>
>
> ------and the output was
>
>
> line 1 br br nl
>
> line 2 br nl
> line 3 br
> line 4 nl line 5 br
>
>
>