Line Break in PHP for-loop

Question

There have been a bunch of questions like this already, but none of the answers seem to help me. I would like to have a line-break after each output from a loop. I am using double-quoted strings, like I read here, as well as using HTML (because I want the browser to recognize the line-breaks too) as I read here.

It does create a line-break, however only below the complete output.

I cannot manage to create a line-break between the outputs of the loop. Basically I get a block of text and then a linebreak.

Here is the loop I am using:

<?php
include_once('simple_html_dom.php');
$target_url = "http://www.buzzfeed.com/trending?country=en-us";
$html = new simple_html_dom();

$html->load_file($target_url);

$posts = $html->find('ul[class=list--numbered trending-posts trending-posts-    now]');
$limit = 10;
$limit = count($posts) < $limit ? count($posts) : $limit;
for($i=0; $i < $limit; $i++){
  $post = $posts[$i];
  $post->find('div[class=trending-post-text]',0)->outertext = "";
  echo strip_tags($post, '<p><a>') . "<br/>\n";
}

I've also tried "\r\n" and a bunch of variations, as well as the nl2br() function. I believe the PHP_EOL command is meant only for the command line, from what I've researched.

I'm an absolute beginner with PHP, so I am probably missing something simple, but I can't figure it out.

EDIT: Here is what it prints: http://globalsocialnews.com/crawler/test8.php

I also included the complete code in case that helps.

*"It does create a line-break, however only below the complete output."* Put the `
` after the `}` that closes the `for` loop — ʰᵈˑ, Feb 17 '16 at 09:03
You have an error in your code example: `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/jasperko/public_html/globalsocialnews.com/crawler/test8.php on line 51` — Aviram, Feb 17 '16 at 09:05
sorry, I tried to implement the answer above you. gone now, didn't work for me — Jasper, Feb 17 '16 at 09:07
I tried both and neither worked out. Ashish below had an answer which worked for me in the end — Jasper, Feb 17 '16 at 09:25

Ashish Raj · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-17T09:25:40.733

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You can do line break using css implementation ... like:

.rcorners1 a {
    display: block;
    margin-bottom: 10px;//for show extra margin between each line...  

    }

Edit: Use margin css attribute for extra margin...

please try implementing this...

edited Feb 17 '16 at 09:25

answered Feb 17 '16 at 09:12

Ashish Raj

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this worked! is there also a way to add another linebreak to this? – Jasper Feb 17 '16 at 09:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 17 '16 at 09:34

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Better Use

echo "</br>";

answered Feb 17 '16 at 09:34

Ajay

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Line Break in PHP for-loop

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