diff --git a/reference/outcontrol/functions/flush.xml b/reference/outcontrol/functions/flush.xml index 3372f84dfa..40940f413d 100644 --- a/reference/outcontrol/functions/flush.xml +++ b/reference/outcontrol/functions/flush.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + @@ -17,36 +17,34 @@ using (CGI, a web server, etc). This effectively tries to push all the output so far to the user's browser. - - - flush has no effect on the buffering - scheme of your webserver or the browser on the client - side. - - - Several servers, especially on Win32, will still buffer - the output from your script until it terminates before - transmitting the results to the browser. - - - Server modules for Apache like mod_gzip may do buffering of their own - that will cause flush to not result in data being - sent immediately to the client. - - - Even the browser may buffer its input before displaying it. - Netscape, for example, buffers text until it receives an - end-of-line or the beginning of a tag, and it won't render - tables until the </table> tag of the outermost table is - seen. - - - Some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer will only start to display - the page after they have received 256 bytes of output, so you may need to - send extra whitespace before flushing to get those browsers to display the - page. - - + + flush has no effect on the buffering + scheme of your webserver or the browser on the client + side. + + + Several servers, especially on Win32, will still buffer + the output from your script until it terminates before + transmitting the results to the browser. + + + Server modules for Apache like mod_gzip may do buffering of their own + that will cause flush to not result in data being + sent immediately to the client. + + + Even the browser may buffer its input before displaying it. + Netscape, for example, buffers text until it receives an + end-of-line or the beginning of a tag, and it won't render + tables until the </table> tag of the outermost table is + seen. + + + Some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer will only start to display + the page after they have received 256 bytes of output, so you may need to + send extra whitespace before flushing to get those browsers to display the + page. +