Variables in ECHO statement without a return

Kris5_0

I'm trying to do a javascript colorchange on mouseover which so far isn't working... everytime I insert on of the PHP variables, it likes to put a page break afterward (viewing the page source) which may or may not be the culprit... either way though, I don't want it to do this. So how can I make it stop?

For example:

This code:

echo "<TABLE WIDTH=100% CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=0 BGCOLOR=$backgroundcolor id='td$jobid' onMouseOver='javascript:document.all.td$jobid.style.background=#DAE6FF' onMouseOut=javascript:document.all.td$jobid.style.background=#F4F4F4>";

generates the following:

What I would like is:

Also, how do I go about using both ' and " in one Echo statement... this javascript example uses both in the working version I have (I've been trying to modify to use one or another).

devinemke

echo '<TABLE WIDTH="100%" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="' . $backgroundcolor . '" id="td' . $jobid . '" onMouseOver="javascript:document.all.td' . $jobid . '.style.background=\'#DAE6FF\'" onMouseOut="javascript:document.all.td' . $jobid . '.style.background=\'#F4F4F4\'">';

Kris5_0

Originally posted by devinemke

echo '<TABLE WIDTH="100%" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="' . $backgroundcolor . '" id="td' . $jobid . '" onMouseOver="javascript:document.all.td' . $jobid . '.style.background=\'#DAE6FF\'" onMouseOut="javascript:document.all.td' . $jobid . '.style.background=\'#F4F4F4\'">';

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Thanks for the reply, but that still shows up with the returns...

View->source

<TABLE WIDTH="100%" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="FFFFDB" id="td
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" onMouseOver="java script:document.all.td
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.style.background=#DAE6FF" onMouseOut="java script:document.all.td
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.style.background=#F4F4F4"><TR><TD WIDTH=*><A HREF='employment1jobedit.php?jobnum=23'

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Also, I had to remove the ' from around the background color or it gives me an error. I would like to be able to use ' and " both in one statement.

Installer

This might be what devinemke was trying to show, but the forum software wouldn't cooperate:

echo '<table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"
 bgcolor="' . $backgroundcolor . '" id="td' . $jobid . '"'
 onMouseOver="javascript:document.all.td' . $jobid . '.style.background=\\'#DAE6FF\\'"
 onMouseOut="javascript:document.all.td' . $jobid . '.style.background=\\'#F4F4F4\\'">';

As for the breaks, does putting "$jobid = trim($jobid);" before the echo statement help?

Kris5_0

Originally posted by Installer
As for the breaks, does putting "$jobid = trim($jobid);" before the echo statement help? [/B]

Yes, that works great... just what I was looking for...

Now riddle me this... I will try that other bit with the \'s too... I might not get to it yet today though, as I'm right at the end of my workday now. Thanks everyone so far though.