Re: What do you mean?

scott@abcoa.com (Scott Fletcher) wrote in news:20020123222617.59880.qmail@pb1.pair.com: > What do you mean? There is a php function that can clean up the > carriage return and line feed. There's a php function somewhere that > will fix up the amount of spaces for each lines to make the end of each > line to be all aligned. So, what would it be? There are a few good reasons why such a thing wouldn't work (but see the exception below). Recall that browsers generally ignore white space (spaces, tabs and new lines) and simply render a number of white space characters as one space. Then, what happens if you set your line to a lenght suitable for a particular resolution and font size, and your viewer is using different settings? One possible solution, although a bit clunky, would be to use a wordwrap function to output your text to a given width, and enclose the whole lot in <PRE> tags. White space will be rendered faithfully in <PRE> but normally the browser will default to a fixed font, unless the user has selected an alternate font and if that is a proportional font your output is screwed. The best way to handle it would be as someone has already suggested, use HTML and perhaps CSS to format your output. -- David Robley Temporary Kiwi!