如何将html页面转换为同一对齐的文本文件？

Question

I have an HTML page which formats text as show below. I want to generate a text file with the same formatting.

 Text1                                                                 Text2 

    This is the paragraph1

    Text

    01.03.2017
    This is the paragraph 2

Currently, I am using the html2text class but the output I got is different,it shows this below output

    include("html2text/html2text.php");
    $text = convert_html_to_text($my_var);

Generates

Text1 Text2  This is paragraph 1 Text 01.03.2017 This is the paragraph2

So everything in in one line. But I want in the same format as when the HTML document render. How do I achieve this?

Answer 1

Your HTML file does not contain HTML tags, so why would you want to convert it to text ? It is already a text file.

You could add "pre" tags around the $my_var variable, perhaps the library that you use will preserve whitespace inside the tag.

If that does not work you could first replace all double spaces with another string, do the conversion and then replace your string with double spaces again.