Question

Here’s my code snippet:

   foreach ($row as $key => $val) {

        echo "<div class='jmp'><b>". htmlentities($key).": </b><br>"
        .htmlentities($val)."</div>\n";
    }

Oddly, PHP sometimes output like this:

<div class='jmp'><b>HDD_SIZE_GB:</b><br> 143.5</div>
<div class='jmp'><b>HDD_MODEL:b><br> SEAGATE STT14775 </div>
<div class='jmp'><b>HDD_SN:</b><br> 3LN3N0098271QL2</div>

Note that the the ending < is missing from “b” element in the middle? What is causing it? There are 500 records in DB. Even more puzzling, it is not consistent. When I refresh the page, that error in that particular row will disappear but the identical error will pop up in other rows. That totally defeats the strict XHTML parsing.

Answer 1

My comment as an answer:

Are you sure that is the raw output (try it on the command line, or with lynx)? Sometimes browsers will alter code…