Don't output indent before PHP open tag

Question

I am trying to style my PHP script like a templating language, but the problem is, that PHP outputs the indentation before <?php tags like this:

<ul>
    <? foreach ($arr as $val) { ?>
        <li><?= $val ?></li>
    <? } ?>
</ul>

This works, but outputs

<ul>
            <li>a</li>
            <li>b</li>
    </ul>

and that is terrible.

Is there a way to not output the indentation before PHP tags?

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Secondly, the <li> tag is indented twice, but I want to remove one indentation level.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

The PHP starting tag "<?php" must be under UL tag no indent. this will work.

<ul>
<?php
     foreach ($arr as $val) { ?>
    <li><?php echo $val; ?></li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>