Indipendenetmente dal perchè non capisco la tua scelta di utilizzare l'echo per stampare tutto quell'HTML.
Perchè non fai così?

Codice PHP:
<?php session_start(); ?>

<div id="login">
<h2> LOGIN </h2>
    <div id="loginphp">
     <form name="loginArea" onsubmit="hideblock(1)" method="post" action="login.php">
        <table align="center" width="200" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
          <tr>
            <td colspan="2" align="center">Accedi all Area Riservata:</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">Nome Utente:</td>
                <tr>
                    <td align="center"><input type="text" name="username"></td>
                </tr>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">Password:</td>
                <tr>
                    <td align="center"><input type="password" name="password"></td>
                </tr>
          </tr>
</br>
          <tr>
            <td align="center" colspan="2">      
              <input type="submit" name="invio" value="invio">
              <input type="reset" name="cancella" value="cancella">
            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>
        </form> 
    </div>
</div>