Re: Newbie's question about \n

Hello KK, Monday, July 22, 2002, 9:00:47 PM, you wrote: KL> Dear ALL, KL> It seems that i have a very silly problem. KL> I can't get the new line escape character to work. KL> the following is my SIMPLE script and corresponding output. KL> PHP script: KL> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC KL> "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" KL> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" > KL> <html> KL> <head> KL> <title>TEST</title> KL> </head> KL> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> KL> <?php KL> echo "this should be printed out:\n"; KL> echo "this is a second line"; KL> ?> KL> </body> KL> </html> KL> Output in IE6: KL> this should be printed out: this is a second line KL> regards, KL> KK The browser will ignore newlines use <br> instead. to use newlines the text could be enclosed in <pre> text\n more text\n</pre> tags, but <br> is probably what you need. -- Best regards, Tom mailto:trogers@kwikin.com