Question

Inside my header the html tags are not separated by new lines.

For example:

<? if(){
     echo 'meta title';
   }
   if(something){
     echo 'meta desc';
   } ?>

The Mozilla browser does not break lines between meta’s

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You need to put newline characters at the end of each line to explicitly end the line. The newline character is \n. Notice I changed your single quotes to double quotes as single quotes would cause the \ not to escape the n and literally print \n to the page instead of a newline character.

   <? if(){
     echo "<title>Website Title</title>\n";
   }
   if(something){
     echo "<meta description=\"desciption\" />\n";
   } ?>

See the PHP manual for more on special characters