May 24, 2011
Using nl2br with html tags
Question by Alex Emilov
I use nl2br when displaying some information that is saved somewhere, but when HTML tags are used I want not to add <br> tags for them.
For example if I use
<table>
<th></th>
</table>
it will be transformed to
<table><br />
<th></th><br />
</table><br />
and that makes a lot of spaces for this table.
Ho can break line tags be added only for other non-HTML content?
Thanks.
Answer by Michiel Pater
You could replace the closing tags and newlines by only closing tags:
$str = str_replace('>
', '>', $str);
Answer by Starx
I think your question is wrong. If you are typing
<table>
<th></th>
</table>
into a text area then no matter what you do It will include <br /> in between them. Because it is what nl2br is supposed to do.
