Alternative of heredoc syntax

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Is there anything in HTML like heredoc syntax in PHP? Because in case of a span with long text I have to use br tags each time I want to have a linebreak.

use a div with fixed width, which'd cause the text to wrap itself. Heredocs do not "wrap" text for you. They're simply a way of outputting (or assigning) multiple lines of text without having to do repeated string concatenation. — Marc B, Jul 11 '13 at 14:43
Use `
` elements, and allow the browser to wrap the text inside some containing element. Or is that too easy? — , Jul 11 '13 at 14:45

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '13 at 14:44

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Don't use spans with long text, use paragraphs, or parse your text as if it were Markdown, like here:

Some Line

Some Other Line

will render to:

<p>Some Line</p>
<p>Some Other Line</p>

answered Jul 11 '13 at 14:44

moonwave99

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terite · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-11T15:24:51.250

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The <pre> tag sounds like what you're looking for. From MDN: Whitespaces inside this element are displayed as typed.

<pre>
Hello
 !!!
World
</pre>

becomes

Hello
 !!!
World

You can also use the white-space CSS property to achieve a similar effect on any tag, though it behaves slightly differently.

<span style="white-space:pre;">Hello
 !!!
World
</span>

edited Jul 11 '13 at 15:24

answered Jul 11 '13 at 15:14

terite

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Alternative of heredoc syntax

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