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Re: [PHP-DB] CSS versus Includes From: Boclair (boclair <email protected>)
Date: 04/01/01

"Matt Braynard" <mbraynard <email protected>> wrote in message
news:NFBBJICKALDCFFKLNBHIKEGNCMAA.mbraynard <email protected>
| When I asked the question, what I meant was should I use the
includes to
| hold page style details or a CSS file. And someone who understood
that this
| was not an apples and oranges situation but one of approach answered
that
| Netscape was not fully supportive of CSS and suggested includes may
be the
| way to go.

Whether you link to an external stylesheet, embed a style block or
declare the styles in-line is a matter for author management of the
CSS property declarations. The use of includes or scripting the
actual link, block or inline styling in the document does not matter a
wit.

Importantly, if the styling is included, the interpretation is still
done by the client browser. Whether includes or in-document coding
are used, the restrictions and bugs and failure to parse, where
invalid markup or styling is involved, still apply.

What I do notice, however, with some Nav4x browsers, that escaping the
quotes on class names in printf() causes these browsers to sometimes
escape the whole class declaration.
eg.

printf('<tr>
<td class=\'id\' align=\'right\'>%s</td>
<td class=\'lname\'>%s</td>
<td class=\'fname\'>%s</td>
<td class=\'logon\'>%s</td>
<td class=\'logoff\'>%s</td>
</tr>
', $myrow['id'], $myrow['lname'], $myrow['fname'],$myrow['logon'],
$myrow['logoff']);

The solution for some documents is to write as such
<td class=id align=right>%s</td>

How this will affect xml documents I am not sure

Also with tables, if the data is being extracted from a database, as
above, and the data in a particular field row is null, the td cell
styling background will collapse with Nav4x browsers. This might be
solved by a conditional statement inserting some content where the
database row/field content is null, or constructing the database table
with pseudo content, such as &nbsp; as the default for fields likely
to have null content.

Sorry, but my experience is that oranges are oranges and apples and
apples are apples. Nice thought! but I do not think you can get out
of browser non-compliance by using PHP.

Tim Morris 

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