Css + Php

kelsie

I'm working on establishing some different styles for tables using a CSS sheet, yet I'm running into problems because our website uses PHP. Apparently only certain tags can be used when a site is run through PHP?
I'm not familiar with PHP, but recently I had to work around this same issue regarding establishing different styles of text. I've found that <code> <dfn> and <samp> are all tags that work to set up different kinds of text, say different colors or sizes, using the style sheet.

Currently I have a class for tables "info". This one appears to work just fine. I tried to set up a "pic" or "gallery" talble setting...but once again am not having any luck.

Is there a link to information that outlines this issue? I wasn't able to find anything. Or, if someone could provide me with a table class name that will function properly, I'd be happy with that too.

Thank you.

Pig

You cannot find anything, because nothing exists (if I am understanding you correctly). PHP merely parses the code before it is sent. It has nothing to do with how the client displays the outputted information. PHP has no issue with any CSS or HTML tags, because those tags are meaningless to PHP. They are just text that is being mashed around and manipulated. to PHP, <code> is the same as xcodex.

If you are unable to get the styles to work right, check the source outputted by PHP and see what doesn't appear as you would expect.

dalecosp

I'd basically have to concur with Pig; PHP is only going to spew out whatever the programmer has told it to, and if he messed up the CSS, it's not PHP's fault. But, as Pig also mentioned, it's not entirely clear from your post exactly what is the problem.

For example, I have PHP identify a user-agent (browser) and expel the CSS instruction based on what browser is viewing the site.

// first, some browser detection <skipped!>

// then, switch the browser and assign the value

switch ($browser) {
     case "Mozilla": 
          $sheet="mozilla.css";
     case "Opera": 
          $sheet="opera.css";         

     case "MSIE": 
          $sheet="msie.css";
}

// Then, echo the HTML/CSS statement

echo "@include \"$sheet\";";

So, you can kind of see at least one thing that PHP is generally used for. It makes decisions about what kind of content is to be sent to the browser based on input from the browser, or other information the programmer has designed into the system.

Please do as Pig suggested and examine your HTML source carefully. If you're reading CSS tags from a database via PHP, I guess it's possible that magic quotes (or slashes) or something is interfering with certain tags, and this might account for what you're seeing.