There is another clarification that can be made. While browsers will visibly collapse multi-white-spaces, you can do a "View Source" within the browser to see the raw (unrendered) HTML. From here you will see exactly what Perl has generated. For example, this script: 
#!/perl/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header();

print qq(<!--prints "Hello World" with two embedded newlines-->\n);
print qq(<b>Hello\n\nWorld</b>\n);

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... will render:

Hello World

in the browser. "View Source" reveals: 
<!--prints "Hello World" with two embedded newlines-->
<b>Hello

World</b>

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By judiciously using newlines and HTML comments, you can document and beautify the raw HTML source so that troubleshooting is a snap.

I hope this helps.

Where do you want *them* to go today?

In reply to Re: \n won't work?! by thezip
in thread \n won't work?! by iamrobj

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