Re: Formatting an ECHO statement.

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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:40:03PM +0530, Shreyas Agasthya wrote:

> Team,
> 
> A bit of silly one but like my book says, there are no dumb questions, I am
> asking it here.
> 
> If I have :
> 
> $other="Whatever";
> 
> and I do:
> 
> echo 'Other Comments:' .$other. '<br/>
> 
> works perfectly well and prints the value. What if I want to, now, italicize
> the value of $other with the above syntax? How do I achieve it?
> 
> I know we can do it this way : echo " I am <i>$other</i>"; but I want to
> learn how to do it with the above syntax like I mentioned earlier.

No, there's no other way to do it. You're outputting to HTML, and if you
want to have the HTML output italicized, you must surround the term with
the proper code. And in this case, the proper code is actually '<em>',
not '<i>'. The '<i>' code is being deprecated.

Paul

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