如何在具有原始格式的网页上显示文本文件

Question

So im pretty annoyed i cant get this one simple little task completed after doing PHP for the entire night.. but the server im hosting on wont allow you to href text files directly.. I mean, it will, but it will display a blank window.. So i decided i'd build a php for the href and that php can have a statement to include the file.. so far ive tried:

include();
require();
file_get_contents();

They all work, but they all ignore formatting and continuously print the text file across the screen.. How can i print the file with its original formatting? I essentially need it to worry about new lines.

Thanks guys

Answer 1

If you are embedding the text in a HTML document, you can enclose a piece of text in <pre>...</pre> tags to preserve its formatting.

On modern browsers you can achieve the same thing by setting the CSS white-space property to pre.