Semicolons Kill this Code

Anon

My page quit working correctly under explorer when I added this line of code:

print("<span id=\"staticcombo\" style=\"position:absolute;left:0;top:0;visibility:hidden\">\n");

I have narrowed the problem down to the semicolons, when they are removed, the page will come up again. The problem is that I need the semicolons to print so that a java script I am building will work correctly.

I tried to escape the semicolons and that did not work. How do I print these little buggers?

Thanks,

Lance Earl

Anon

you can either
a) write a closing php tag, write your html, then an opening php tag.
or..
b) give it a CSS class or ID, and keep the CSS in an external file.

Anon

The semicolons are necessary to have a correct syntax. If you remove them, the style is ignored, so the page appears normally. If you put them, the style is interpreted correctly, and all the contents of the span is hidden. The contents ends with the </span> tag. If you don't put this tag, all your page will be invisible. I suppose this is what you mean by "My page quit working correctly"...

Anon

Because you arn't useing any variables in your code, use hard quotes around it instead of soft quotes and see how that does.

(hard quotes = ', soft = ")

Anon

There is no PHP problem with the code you posted. PHP properly prints the string, with semicolons intact. If there is a problem, it is either elsewhere in your program, or with IE's handling of the HTML that you generated.