[RESOLVED] Using CSS with dynamic text

dmacman1962

Hello,

I have some dynamic text I would like to apply my CSS to and I am not sure how to do that.

I did some searches on the site, but did not find any answers.

Here is a sample of the code I have.

<?PHP 
          if (mysql_result($result,0,"prodType")=="Video"){
			  echo 'Click the links below to view more samples<br>(must have "<a href="http://www.real.com">RealPlayer</a>)<br><br><hr><br><br>';
			  }
			  else 
			  echo "";
			   ?>

I have sheets set. for 2 styles, "text" and "header".

I have the inlcude for the css as follows:

<link href="../font.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Thanks,

Don

konsu

hello, unless i misunderstood the question, you can include for example the DHTML class name that you have in your CSS in to the output that you produce after you invoke mysql_result.

dmacman1962

I dont think that I was clear with my question.

Lets say this is my php code:

<?PHP echo $row['mediaDesc']; ?>

How would I apply the css style to that block of text?

In HTML, here is how I would do it:

<span class="header">This is my text that will come the the MySQL table.</span>

Does that make more sense?

Thanks,

Don

dmacman1962

I figured out how to do this:

I changed:

<?PHP 
          if (mysql_result($result,0,"prodType")=="Video"){
			  echo 'Click the links below to view more samples<br>(must have "<a href="http://www.real.com">RealPlayer</a>)<br><br><hr><br><br>';
			  }
			  else 
			  echo "";
			   ?>

to...

<span class="font">
<?PHP 
          if (mysql_result($result,0,"prodType")=="Video"){
			  echo 'Click the links below to view more samples<br>(must have "<a href="http://www.real.com">RealPlayer</a>)<br><br><hr><br><br>';
			  }
			  else 
			  echo "";
			   ?>
</span>

everwhere I had dynamic text.

Thanks anyway.

marshallm

Yep you got it. The text formatting is done in HTML. PHP's job is just to output the HTML. So you could also do something like this:

<?php

$className = "font";
echo('<span class="'. $className .'">Hello, world!</span>");

Things like that are handy if you want to do something like, say, change the class of a piece of text based on what it's numerical value is. We do that on our budget reports. Numbers that are below budget (good numbers) get a class that has the text black, numbers over budget (bad numbers) get a class that has the text red.