Preserve Line Breaks - Simple HTML DOM Parser

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Tim picture Tim · Jan 27, 2011 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

When using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser, is it normal that line breaks
tags are stripped out?

Answer

Steve picture Steve · Feb 22, 2012

I know this is old, but I was looking for this as well, and realized there was actually a built in option to turn off the removal of line breaks. No need to go editing the source.

The PHP Simple HTML Dom Parser's load function supports multiple useful parameters:

load($str, $lowercase=true, $stripRN=false, $defaultBRText=DEFAULT_BR_TEXT)

When calling the load function, simply pass false as the third parameter.

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load("<html><head></head><body>stuff</body></html>", true, false);

If using file_get_html, it's the ninth parameter.

file_get_html($url, $use_include_path = false, $context=null, $offset = -1, $maxLen=-1, $lowercase = true, $forceTagsClosed=true, $target_charset = DEFAULT_TARGET_CHARSET, $stripRN=true, $defaultBRText=DEFAULT_BR_TEXT)

Edit: For str_get_html, it's the fifth parameter (Thanks yitwail)

str_get_html($str, $lowercase=true, $forceTagsClosed=true, $target_charset = DEFAULT_TARGET_CHARSET, $stripRN=true, $defaultBRText=DEFAULT_BR_TEXT, $defaultSpanText=DEFAULT_SPAN_TEXT)

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