textarea sizeing

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:46 am

I am using the following in a php file to display some stuff in a textarea box

Code:

 echo "            <table width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>


        <tr>


          <td height='50' valign='middle' align='center'><strong>88x31 Link to Us Button(s)</strong></td>


        </tr>


      </table>


      <table width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>


        <tr>


          <td align='center' width='50%'><strong>88x31</strong><br>


            <br>


            <a href='$siteurl' target='_blank' name='$alttext'><img src='$img1' border='0' alt='$alttext' /></a><br>


            <br>


            <textarea><a href=\"$siteurl\" target=\"_blank\" name=\"$alttext\"><img src=\"$img1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"$alttext\" /></a></textarea></td>";

Obviously textarea size is set in plain old html using

Code:

<textarea rows="3" cols="3"> text here blah blah </textarea>

but that does not seem to work with php.
What stupid mistake have I made?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Remember that PHP is, at the roots, a template engine. After all is said and done, PHP produces HTML related code to the browser. So, if you tell PHP

Code:

<?


echo "<textarea rows=\"3\" cols=\"3\"> text here blah blah </textarea>";


?>

then PHP will send <textarea rows="3" cols="3"> text here blah blah </textarea> to your browser. It doesn't care if it's valid HTML or not. So, if that code is correct then something else is affecting the code.

I just ran that code and it worked correctly

Code:

 text


here 


blah 


blah

What happens when you try it?

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 5:09 pm

Doh - how stupid am I?
I knew it was something simple - I forgot to escape the quotes!
.. think I'll get back under my rock for a while.............