Avoiding line breaks in HTML output of PHP - php

Question

Here I have my print function:
<?php
// little helper function to print the results
function printTag($tags) {
foreach($tags as $t) {
echo '<span class="' . $t['tag'] . '">';
echo $t['token'] . "/" . $t['tag'];
echo '</span>';
echo " ";
}
}
$tagger = new PosTagger('lexicon.txt');
?>
And here is what I'm outputting from an HTML form:
<?php
if($_POST['submitbutton'] == "Submit") {
//Check whether the form has been submitted
$tags = $tagger->tag($_POST['texttotag']);
printTag($tags);
}
?>
My problem is, the output in the browser results in strange line breaks in the middle of some of my <span> like so:
<span class="VB">Enter/VB</span> <span class="PRP$">your/PRP$</span> <span class="NN
">text/NN
</span> <span class="TO">to/TO</span> <span class="NN">tag/NN</span> <span class="RB
">here/RB
</span>
This means my CSS definitions don't apply to the "interrupted" spans. Any idea why this is happening and how I can stop it? I've had a good look around and haven't been able to find cause/solution. Thanks.

Answer 1

It seems that your $t['tag'] variable includes a line-break.
You can get rid of that using trim($t['tag']) instead.

Answer 2

It appears that the $t['tag'] in printTag function contains line break character. You can use str_replace function to remove these characters like:
function printTag($tags) {
foreach($tags as $t) {
echo '<span class="' . $t['tag'] . '">';
$ttag = str_replace('\n','',$t['tag']);
$ttag = str_replace('\r','',$ttag);
echo $t['token'] . "/" . $ttag;
echo '</span>';
echo " ";
}
}