How do I concatenate htmlspecialchars? :/

[Alanay]

I need to put this inside of a p tag so I can change some properties but everything I've tried doesn't work and just shows nothing.

 

I've tried this:

printf('<p style="text-align: left; width: 500px;">', htmlspecialchars($fetch['shout'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'), '</p>');

This is what I need to be wrapped in p tags:

htmlspecialchars($fetch['shout'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

EDIT: I've noticed the code below works but when I style it inside of the tag the text won't show, should I include a CSS file on the PHP file?

echo "<p>".htmlspecialchars($fetch['shout'])."</p>\n";

EDIT: I just needed to create the CSS for the p tags in the index and it worked perfectly fine. 

 

Sorry for the pointless thread.

Edited December 18, 2014 by Alanay

[Barand]

If you are going to use printf(), use it correctly with %s placeholder for the string argument.

 

printf('<p style="text-align: left; width: 500px;">%s</p>', htmlspecialchars($fetch['shout'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));

[Alanay]

If you are going to use printf(), use it correctly with %s placeholder for the string argument.

 

printf('<p style="text-align: left; width: 500px;">%s</p>', htmlspecialchars($fetch['shout'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));

 

Thank you, works perfectly.