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Asked: 2026-05-23T13:52:45+00:00

This might sound like a silly question but how would I make this code

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This might sound like a silly question but how would I make this code seem…neater?

    echo "<h3><font face='helvetica'><font size='4'><b><font color='B80000'>$title</font></font></font></b> <font color='A0A0A0'>$category &nbsp;</font><font color='A0A0A0'><a href='profile.php?id=$userid'>$user</a></font>
    <font face='helvetica'><font size='3'><br>&nbsp;$desc</font></font><br>

       <h3><font color='101010'> &nbsp;$city,$state&nbsp;$zip&nbsp;<font color='A0A0A0'>$date</font>  </font></h3>";
?>

There’s nothing wrong with the code but it looks so sloppy – I was wondering if someone could help me out with making it look neat and tidy

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  1. Editorial Team
    1. Don’t use <font> – move those rules to CSS, where you can style the <h3> element. Also! Not all computers have Helvetica, so you may want to change that to "Helvetica", Arial; so the design stays somewhat inline with your intent.
    2. Stay away from using <h3> twice – put the second h3 into a <p> or something similar, and use CSS to style that.
    3. &nbsp;$city,$state&nbsp;$zip&nbsp; is dirty – concatenate the string with spaces in PHP, then echo the string.
    4. Instead of using echo to output the PHP, just use echo inside of the HTML for the certain elements – this will make it much more readable.
    5. Use htmlspecialchars() on every piece of data that comes out of a database before you echo it to the page. This prevents invalid HTML and XSS vulnerabilities.

    That should tighten it up!

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