Question

This code on an html page comes in as one line. Why isn’t backslash n working?

    <?php
        $text1 =  "I don't understand how this works!  \nHow the hell do I get this thing to use \nmulti lines in PHP???!!!";
        echo $text1;
    ?>

Answer 1

The result is multiline. HTML simply ignores line breaks (See the page’s source code to see it). You probably want to use <br> to line break in HTML.

<?php
$text_to_echo =
    "I don't understand how this works!<br>\n
How the hell do I get this thing to use <br>\n
multi lines in PHP???!!!";
echo $text_to_echo;