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Jackie Jen
Jackie Jen
2,723 Points
Posted by Jackie Jen
Jackie Jen
2,723 Points

Why a <br /> tag is diplay in a <td> table instead of break new line

Let said i retrieve the data from database and store in $string['description'].

This $string['description'] =

 "Description: For the month of june, 2014, including:
i) Review of Management Account for the month of june
ii) Follow-up on Cash Sales for the month of june"

Therefore i want to display the "i)" in next line and "ii)" next line too. so what i do is

$string['description'] = nl2br($string['description'] );

and this is showing me 

Description: Description: For the month of june, including:<br /> i) Review of Management Account for the month of june 2014<br /> ii) Follow-up on Cash Sales for the month of june

How to make the <br /> tag axactly perform the new line functions

Gergő Bogdán
Gergő Bogdán
6,664 Points
Gergő Bogdán
Gergő Bogdán
6,664 Points

Could you share the generated HTML code?

2 Answers

Jackie Jen
Jackie Jen
2,723 Points
Jackie Jen
Jackie Jen
2,723 Points

Hi Chris, Gergo

I found the problem why the <br/> tag not act as new line in html. The reason is because i'm putting htmlsafe function which is protect from XSS attacks through aggressively HTML encoding anything you write between <%= %>

Thanks for helping, appreciate

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Kenny,

The reason you're seeing <br> elements is because of the nl2br function which does the following.

Returns string with <br /> or <br> inserted before all newlines (\r\n, \n\r, \n and \r).

So any time it finds a new line character in your string it will automatically replace it with an <br> element instead.

Jackie Jen
Jackie Jen
2,723 Points
Jackie Jen
Jackie Jen
2,723 Points

Hi Chris,

yes, the reason i'm using this nl2br function is to adding the <br />tag. And this <br /> tag mean new lines in html. But when i display $string['description'] why html does not recognize this <br /> tag as a new line?