Need simple echo help

[t3kizzleee]

Hello,

 

I'm not a PHP coder but I am having trouble echoing something simple.

 

I want to echo "<br/>"

 

I've tried it so many times but cannot get it to print out what I want.

[mapleleaf]

maybe because a line break is nothing to see. did you try:

echo 'hello<br>world';

[J-C]

You can still out put a line break  but you need to do it like this 

 echo '<br>'; 

[x_filed2k]

I am not sure on what you are trying to do?

 

Are you trying to print on a web browser an html tags.. if do so you need to use a function:

echo(htmlentities("<br />", ENT_QUOTES));

 

But if you would like to <br /> only, of course you're not going to see it, coz it is a html tag, you can see it if you view source, .

[J-C]

I am not sure on what you are trying to do?

 

Are you trying to print on a web browser an html tags.. if do so you need to use a function:

echo(htmlentities("<br />", ENT_QUOTES));

 

But if you would like to <br /> only, of course you're not going to see it, coz it is a html tag, you can see it if you view source, .

 

LOL i actually didn't think he wanted to output an ACTUAL "<br />"  xD i guess that would make more sense why he can't get it working 

[t3kizzleee]

I don't want to print the line break.

 

I know that it is a BR tag.

 

I want to print the specific characters "<br/>"

 

EDIT:

 

The htmlentities worked for me.

 

Thank you so much.

 

I was trying to do with with a \ to negate the < in the tag but it wouldn't work and it got me really frustrated. Thanks.

[J-C]

OH lol well you can do as suggested above or you can do this

 

 echo ' <br /> ';  

 

lol i know is really gay but it works  xD

[x_filed2k]

Hehe. Yeah, but it is a better practice to use htmlentities("<br />", ENT_QUOTES);