[FX.php List] PHP echo breaks CSS

Wed Apr 16 17:41:31 MDT 2008

On 17/04/08 7:37 AM, "Dale Bengston" <dbengston at tds.net> wrote:

> In practice, the CSS does get whacked in these circumstances (at least
> in Firefox). The work-around seems simple though - avoid echo-ing from
> PHP outside the confines of the html page. The only time I've seen
> this is when errors happen that are reported before the page is drawn.
> The solution is to fix what's causing the errors.
> 
> Dale

Dale's suggestion is a good one, and he hints at the cause - outputting
content before the opening HTML tag breaks the browsers's understanding of
the document structure. How the browser handles this varies per
implementation, but the messed-up font sizes is a common symptom in
Mozilla-based implementations. The solution is to simply echo errors
somewhere in the <body> element, perhaps with their own CSS styling to make
them obvious.

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Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/

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