How to style a variable

[Morris2]

 

Hi.

 

In the code below I want to style the variable total and the word USD from a customized stylesheet.

I tried to make this work based on a previous answer, but i failed. 

I know now how to style a paragraph in HTML from CSS, but don't have a clue about how to style a variable.

 

Best regards Morris.

 

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($chart))

{echo $row['artist']."..."

.$row['city']." "

.$row['country']." "

.$row['total']." USD<br>";}

[trq]

I know now how to style a paragraph in HTML from CSS, but don't have a clue about how to style a variable.

 

PHP does nothing special, it is generally used to output HTML.

 

<span class="foo"><?php echo $somevariable; ?></span>

[AyKay47]

well you can parse some HTML to wrap around the variable and style it.. in this case lets say a span.. like so..

 

echo "<span class='testCSS'>".$row['total']." USD</span>";

 

then style the span however you want the text to look like..

 

Edit: thorpe beat me to it..

[Morris2]

Thanks!

 

I will have to insert this line within the while loop, so all the totals and USD in this list will be styled.

 

But where in my code do I insert this line??:  echo "<span class='testCSS'>".$row['total']." USD</span>";

 

With or without the echo word? Will you show me?

 

Thanks

[AyKay47]

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($chart))
{echo $row['artist']."..."
.$row['city']." "
.$row['country'].
" <span style='foo'>" .$row['total']." USD</span><br>";}

[Morris2]

 

I tried it now, thanks. It dosn't work ...

 

I have this code:

 

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($chart))

{echo

$row['artist']."..."

.$row['city']." "

.$row['country']." "

"<span style='bigHitList'>".$row['total']." USD</span>";

 

I placed the below code in the css file:

 

.bigHitList {

  font-size: 18px;

  color: yellow;

}

 

The browser writes:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

 

[Morris2]

OK.

Now this is working as a stand-alone-script on my server, together with a stand-alone-css file:

 

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($chart))

{echo

$row['artist']."..."

.$row['city']." "

.$row['country'].

" <span class='bigHitList'>".$row['total']." USD</span><br>";}

 

GREAT! - thank you so much!

 

Now I added this script to my Joomla 1.7 site, and here it shows right, but dosn't get styled.

 

Where exactly should I insert the CSS file in the Joomla style sheet?

Or where do I upload my own stylesheet?

 

(I've tried the edit.css and the template.css files in my template folder without luck)

 

 

Best regards Morris

[AyKay47]

as I have only used Joomla for a brief time, I really cannot remember.. however if you look at a view source of your page to see which css files are linked to that page, inserting the class styling in any one of those css files should work.