How do you echo a long space

[2Dcube]

Hello,

I'm doing some PHP and MySQL, and have a very simple question.

How do you echo a long space? When I use echo " ": , it gets echo'd as only one space...

Using echo " "; echo " "; echo " "; doesn't help either.

Thanks in advance for answering :).

2Dcube

EDIT: what's funny is that every long space i typed here, got reduced to a single one as well... it's supposed to be: "____" that long..

[Lick]

This isn't a PHP problem, it's an HTML problem. By default the browsers eat away the whitespaces that come after the first whitespace. You can replace the whitespace by " " (without quotes) which the browser will recognize as a space.

You could also set the CSS property "whitespace " to "pre" for the containing element. That will stop the browser from eating whitespaces.

[Omji]

Display informat as u write
<?
if($_POST['ok'])
{

$om=$_POST[t];
//$om=nl2br($om);
$new_string = str_replace(' ', '&nbsp;',$om) ;
echo nl2br($new_stri ng);
}
?>
<form method="post">

<textarea name="t"></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="ok">
</form>

[Reza Ruslan]

I think the answer from @ Lick is on target, and I just wanted to add a suggestion .. to write a long space you should use

echo "&nbsp;&nbs p;";

or

echo"&nbsp;[space]&nbsp;"; to gain a longer space...

CMIIW