quick question about generated html source code

[xfezz]

the html source code generated from this block of code is one big long line of html code. (seems to scroll like 10 pages across, one div tag after another with the output of the database)

[code]    $SQL = "SELECT * FROM articles ORDER BY id DESC";
    $result = mysql_query($SQL);
      while ($db_field = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$now_format = $db_field['article_date'];
$new_format = date('F d, Y',strtotime($now_format)); // transform
                echo "<div id=\"article_date\">". $new_format ."</div>";  // prints out: date in following format October 20, 2006
echo "<div id=\"article_chk\">"."<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"del_select[]\" value=\"$db_field[id]\" />"."</div>"."<br>";
$db_field['message']=nl2br($db_field['message']);
                echo "<div id=\"article_body\">" .$db_field['message']  ."</div>";
}[/code]

Is there a way to have  the output separated it when viewing the html source code? so it looks nice and neat?

[tippy_102]

Adding a /n will give you a line break:

echo "<div id=\"article_body\">" .$db_field['message']  ."</div>/n";

[xfezz]

ok ty i got the line break. its \n btw not /n. another quick question. I have seen some sites that have the html source code lines indented. obviously it was generated code. anyone know how they did that?

[tippy_102]

They probably use a tab (or two) for that - \t

[Psycho]

Or you could simply include the spaces/tabs within the echo statements. This:

[code]<?php
echo "<table>\n";
echo "    <tr>\n";
echo "        <td>Data1</td>\n";
echo "        <td>Data2</td>\n";
echo "        <td>Data3</td>\n";
echo "    </tr>\n";
echo "</table>\n";
?>[/code]

Will output this:
[code]<table>
    <tr>
        <td>Data1</td>
        <td>Data2</td>
        <td>Data3</td>
    </tr>
</table>[/code]