Randomizing text background colors - SO HOT 5mins Ago

[ridiculous]

I really like the technique this kid used on his site: http://www.c71123.com/daily_photo/
and I'm trying to discern the best way to mimic the seemingly random-color div's on his page.

Any suggestions?





You can do it!!!!!

[corbin]

Use a style sheet and then make the div names dynamic and make them 1 2 3 or something so you could keep track of them with an auto incremented value or something... Then make them random or go 12345...

[ridiculous]

[quote author=corbin link=topic=116642.msg475377#msg475377 date=1164755056]
Use a style sheet and then make the div names dynamic and make them 1 2 3 or something so you could keep track of them with an auto incremented value or something... Then make them random or go 12345...
[/quote]


What do you mean by "make them 1 2 3 or something so you could keep track of them with an auto incremented value or something... Then make them random or go 12345..."?

[sw0o0sh]

Uhm, assuming your using php, assign different style sheets to a random value.

[code]
<?PHP
$rand=rand(1,3);
if($rand==1){
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' href='blabla/mystyle1.css' type='text/css' />";
}else if($rand==2){
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' href='blabla/mystyle2.css' type='text/css' />";
}else{
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' href='blabla/mystyle3.css' type='text/css' />";
}
?>
[/code]

[corbin]

I meant do something like

<div class="divcolor_<?=rand(1,10);?>">

Then in a style sheet set the colors and what not for divcolor_1, divcolor_2 so on...

[sw0o0sh]

Alrighty.. Maybe you'd write...

[code]
<?PHP
$rand=rand(1,10);
echo "<div class='divcolor_".$rand."'>";
?>

or

<?PHP
$rand=rand(1,10);
?>
<div class='divcolor_<?PHP echo $rand; ?>'>
[/code]

[corbin]

That would work :P  If you wished to have random themes though a diff style sheet would be a better approach.