How do you get php to output more than one space?

[arthaeus]

I can write a string to the screen, but if i want to put tabs between them, php will print ONLY ONE space instead of the tab. if i replace the '\t' with 50 spaces, the screen will only output one. im trying to create a tree like structure like the following

 

 

element one

*<tab>* response to element one

element two

*<tab>* response to element two

 

 

each of the tabs is reduced to one character. can anyone help??

[GingerRobot]

Output &nsbp; for each space you would like to have:

 

<?php
echo 'test       test';
?>

 

Gives: test      test

[soycharliente]

\t and \n will only display in the source code. Anything more than one spacebar stroke will render in the browser as one space. Perfect example is typing on multiple lines. When HTML the renders, it reads prefectly normal, one word after another.

 

If you want multiple spaces, use a < pre > tag or  

 

Google both of them.

 

Example:

<pre>                                            i hit spacebar 50 times before this.</pre>