[mgpwr]

hey

when i type:

<div class="style15" id="date"> Tuesday 10th April </div>

the div will display, however when i add the following php to the div it does not display.

<div class="style15" id="date">
<?php echo date('l jS F Y'); ?> </div>

?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????

[herkalees]

You do have a php parser on your hosting account, and the file name ends in .php, right?

[mgpwr]

yeah and yeah

[pgo]

What does it return? Nothing?

Try changing it to something that's not a function. Say, <?php echo "Pooh."; ?>

[roo]

I'm quite new to CSS... and this is unrelated, but why do you have a class and an id assigned to one element? Why not style it completely using #date { } ?

[pgo]

Originally Posted by roo

I'm quite new to CSS... and this is unrelated, but why do you have a class and an id assigned to one element? Why not style it completely using #date { } ?

I'd be more concerned with the "style15" thing. That looks like classically bad Dreamweaver code.

[Paul]

Originally Posted by pgo

I'd be more concerned with the "style15" thing. That looks like classically bad Dreamweaver code.

yup

[pgo]

Cue "Jaws" music.

[haku]

There can be reasons to have an ID and a class together for one element. The class can be used to apply styles that are consistent across all elements that have that class name. Using this allows you to change something across all elements with that class - for example you could be adding an underline to all links. But then the ID allows you to adjust the styling of that element specifically. Maybe you want that one link to be bold, but not the rest of the links that have that class.

[roo]

Got you, cheers haku

[haku]

No worries.

As a bit of a side point, an ID name may also be added for javascript reasons - elements with IDs are easy to target with external javascript. So an ID could be added for reasons that have nothing to do with styling the element.