<div> Surrounding Print Functions

[CRO8]

Hello all:

 

I tried to use CSS to control page positioning for this line of code that prints results of a query, location is correct but it keeps printing over each other:

 

>// simple loop to display all the results in the array
if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

do {
print "<div id='print_category'><center><b>" . $row['name'] . "  " . "<font color='blue'><u>" . $row['offer_url'] . "</u></font>" .  "  " . $row['c_code'] . "  " . "</b></center></div>" . "<br><br>\n";
  }

 

this page show that my results are printing in middle of page, on one line. I understand why. It keeps printing over each other.

 

How can I get it to print on separate lines?

 

Thanks!

[borfast]

It appears to be working just fine, here. I don't see anything wrong with your code, either.

[CRO8]

huh, weird. Im on IE 6 and the results overlap eachother . . .

[Venusian31]

I just tried it with my IE6 browser and it overlapped for me, too, but when I viewed it with FireFox, it shows up fine. It must be an IE thing. IE has a lot of problems sometimes.

[borfast]

Same here. With FireFox, everything shows up just fine but when I tried it on my sister's computer (IE6), all the lines were overlapped... that's really odd, it shouldn't happen...

[btrfld]

I have the same results, with the addition that Opera7 seems to behave like IE6.

 

Perhaps they're reacting to the fact that you've given all the result <div>s the same ID

<div id='print_category'>

when you're actually supposed to have only one thing in a page with the same ID.

 

You might try adding an incrementing number to the ID and see if it changes:

$i=0;

do {

print "<div id='print_category$i'><center><b>" . $row['name'] . "  " . "<font color='blue'><u>" . $row['offer_url'] . "</u></font>" .  "  " . $row['c_code'] . "  " . "</b></center></div>" . "<br><br>\n";

$i++;

  }

 

Hope it helps

Jim

[CRO8]

hey thanks guys- weird how it displays fine in other browsers and not IE and Opera 7. Anyways, btrfld's idea seems to work in incrementing the results but I lose control over positioning . . .

 

the results

[btrfld]

I'm glad it worked somewhat. If you're using the ID for CSS styling/positioning, try making it a CLASS instead of an ID. You can have as many things as you want with the same class.

[CRO8]

ok cool I will try it tonight. page link I provided will not work b/c I fiddled with code . . .

 

Thanks!

[CRO8]

thanks so muc for all your help- I got my page to work

 

next up applying CSS.

 

Thanks!

[btrfld]

My pleasure. I'm glad it worked. Of course feel free to keep asking. As the Gurus say, we love to help!

[CRO8]

sounds good