Unable to echo <DIV> tags. Help please

[axman288]

I use <DIV> tags on my website to organize the layout. I wanted to echo a message that is a result of a query and use the DIV tags to organize where that content appears on the screen. Whenever I echo the DIV tag; however, the content disappears.

PHP Code:

echo "<div id=\"content\"><div>$msg</div></div>";

CSS Code:

#content
{
position: relative;
top: -250px;
left: 260px;
width:500px;
}

any ideas? Whenever I take away the <DIV> tags echo $msg works just fine.

Whenever I add the <DIV> tags the message disappears.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide me 🙂

[johanafm]

-250px - Perhaps it's off screen.

If that doesn't seem to be the problem, what does the generated html code look like?

[big_nerd]

axman288,

Use <span> instead of <div> if its just to keep things organized, you can assign an ID to span to use with JavaScript as well if you like.

You can also try setting a static width/height to the #content div to see if that helps, also specify display:block; (just an idea, although it shouldn't affect it).

Best of luck...

[axman288]

It was off screen and is fixed now... thanks for the help.

Can't believe I made that mistake xD