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Asked: 2026-06-04T08:04:50+00:00

I just started using the Yii framework and I’m having some trouble with it.

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I just started using the Yii framework and I’m having some trouble with it. I’ve got my layout and views set-up, when I render my view in the controller it works fine, the output appears inside the layout and etcetera, but when I view the source nothing is indented. Is there any way I can indent the final output of my HTML so it’s easier to read and find errors…

controllers/SchedulingController.php

<?PHP
class SchedulingController extends CController
{   
    public function actionStaffCalendar($calendarID)
    {
        $this->render('staff_calendar');
    }
}

views/layouts/main.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Website - <?PHP echo $this->pageTitle; ?></title>

    <script type="text/javascript" src="<?PHP echo Yii::app()->params['webRoot'] . '/assets/js/jQuery.js'; ?>"></script>
</head>
<body>

<?PHP echo $content; // views/scheduling/staff_calendar.php ?>

</body>
</html>

views/scheduling/staff_calendar.php

staff calendar test....

EDIT
For some reason, when I view source in google chrome, all my HTML seems to be on one line, but as soon as I copy it into a text editor it is properly indented. The source appears fine in mozilla firefox.

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  1. Editorial Team

    No, it is not possible (and even not reasonable for performance reasons) to format your output HTML source because

    • Yii generated html controls doesnt know how deep they are in your html tree
    • You could format your own view files so that they are nested correctly withing your layout, but i would rather have it readable on source level because
    • You can use i.e Google Chromes Developer Tools (Ctrl-Shift-I) to view source code as formatted

    Or if you really want then something like that: 

    $html = $this->render('index',array('model'=>$model,), true);
echo formatHtml($html);
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