Bad Display when script tag gets added

[The Little Guy]

When I use this code on my page, it displays perfectly fine.

<?php
echo '
<div class="content">';
	$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM feed WHERE owner = '$_id' ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT 1")or die(mysql_error());
	if(mysql_num_rows($sql) == 1){
		$row = mysql_fetch_array($sql);
		$status = htmlentities($row['status']);
	}else{
		$status = 'What\'s going on?';
	}
	echo '<div class="fontbig" id="status">
	<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="setStatus(parentNode.id,\''.$_first.'\');">'.$_first.' '.$status.'</a>
	</div>
</div>
?>

 

When I add a script tag like the following, it gets all messed up, and doesn't display correctly...

 

<?php
echo '
<div class="content">';
	$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM feed WHERE owner = '$_id' ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT 1")or die(mysql_error());
	if(mysql_num_rows($sql) == 1){
		$row = mysql_fetch_array($sql);
		$status = htmlentities($row['status']);
	}else{
		$status = 'What\'s going on?';
	}
	echo '<div class="fontbig" id="status">
	<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="setStatus(parentNode.id,\''.$_first.'\');">'.$_first.' '.$status.'</a>
	</div>
</div><script type="text/javascript">myStatus=\''.$status.'\';</script>';
?>

 

I have ran my code through the w3 HTML validator, and it validates as valid HTML, so why does it do this?

 

The following attachment shows the problem, the left image is how it should look, and the one on the right is what happens after placing the script tag.

 

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[fry2010]

that seems very odd. Your first script seems to be treating the html as php code at the bottem yet it displays correctly. The second is treating it correctly as html yet doesnt display correctly...

 

Where you have this on your second script:

(parentNode.id,\''.$_first.'\');">'.$_first.' '.$status.'</a>

 

try replacing it with this:

(parentNode.id,\''.$_first.'\');">'.$_first.' '.$status.</a>

As that seems to be how the top code is working...

[The Little Guy]

I think the problem was because I was placing a display type of table-cell on the div. When I replace that with a left float, it displays fine. I wonder why...