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stevenyenzer
stevenyenzer

Reputation: 33

Outputting escaped HTML with PHP includes 4 leading spaces

I'm building a form that produces basic HTML and other plain text output that users will then paste into a content management system.

I set the variables like this:

$date1 = $_POST['date1'];
$city1 = $_POST['city1'];

Then use an if-else statement to set a new variable with that will contain a chunk of the code:

if (!empty($date1) && empty($date2)) {
    $emaileventsectionPT = '' . $date1 . ' in ' . $city1 . '';
else (!empty($date2) && empty($date3)) { 
    $email1eventsectionPT = '' . $date1 . ' in ' . $city1 . '
    ' . $date2 . ' in ' . $city2 . '';
    }

Then echo that variable within the code. In this case, it's in a textarea all by itself on the output page:

<textarea id="txtfld12" onClick="SelectAll('txtfld12');" cols="75" rows="10">
    <?php 
        echo '' . $emaileventsectionPT . '';
    ?>
</textarea>

But that and every other textarea on the output page starts with four spaces:

    EVENT DATE 1 in EVENT CITY 1
EVENT DATE 2 in EVENT CITY 2

Which means that when I copy and paste the code (or whatever else), I have to remove those spaces every time.

I can't figure out what is causing those spaces and how to get rid of them.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 32

Answers (2)

Rodrigo Murillo
Rodrigo Murillo

Reputation: 13642

In your textarea code you have at least 4 newlines. This accounts for the white space you see.

Try this: render the entire block on a single line with no line breaks.

That will remove most if not all of the white space.

You will loose code readability but gain cleaner rendering of the data.

Upvotes: 1

Bogdan Burym
Bogdan Burym

Reputation: 5512

Try to write this way:

<textarea id="txtfld12" onClick="SelectAll('txtfld12');" cols="75" rows="10"><?php echo '' . $emaileventsectionPT . ''; ?></textarea>

Upvotes: 0

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