How to echo in PHP, HTML tags

You can replace '<' with < and '>' with >. For example:

echo "<div>";

The output will be visible <div>.

For longer strings, make a function, for example

function example($input) {
    $output = str_replace('>', '&gt;', str_replace('<', '&lt;', $html));
    return $output;
}

echo example($your_html);

Don't forget to put backslashes href=\"#\" or do it with single quotes href='#' or change it in a function too with str_replace.

This will also work fine with double quotes. To echo any html_tag with double quotes we just need to remember one thing, Do not use any other double quotes(") in the middle.

<?php
    echo "
    <div>
        <h3><a href='https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3931351/how-to-echo-in-php-html-tags'>First</a></h3>
        <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
        </div>
    <div>";
?>

Notice here the link inside the PHP echo is enclosed within the single quotes. This is the precaution you should take while using the double quotes for this purpose.

Here I have added code, the way you want line by line.

The .= helps you to echo multiple lines of code.

$html = '<div>';
$html .= '<h3><a href="#">First</a></h3>';
$html .= '<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>';
$html .= '</div>';
$html .= '<div>';
echo $html;