Preserve linebreak txt php

Question

How can I read a .txt file from my server, and preserve it\'s linebreaks? Note that the linebreaks aren\'t like this /n or something, they are more

Answer 1

The line breaks are preserved without you needing to do anything. You can easily verify this by running the code from the command line, for example with

php -r "readfile('text.txt');"

However, in HTML whitespace is collapsed by default. If you want to preserve it use the CSS white-space attribute like this: