how do you get php to output more than one space?

Question

I can write a string to the screen, but if i want to put tabs between them, php will print ONLY ONE space instead of the tab. if i replace the '\t' with 50 spaces, the screen will only output one. im trying to create a tree like structure like the following


element one
** response to element one
element two
** response to element two


each of the tabs is reduced to one character. can anyone help??

Answer 1

Extra whitespace (beyond a single space) is ignored in HTML. You'll either have to use non-breaking spaces (an HTML Entity) or use the CSS text-indent property.

Answer 2

Try formatting your page in HTML. Unless you get PHP to print to a text file, your page will show up as HTML where excess spacing is usually ignored.

At the very least, putting a

Answer 3

extra white spaces will always be counted as one. To include more than 1 white space use the non blank space entity of HTML. Just put   where ever you want an extra space any number of times

Answer 4

Here's PHP code to do just what you show:
print '