Re: Preferred Syntax

On Dec 14, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hello all. > > Can someone tell me which of the following is preferred and why? > > echo "<a style='text-align:left;size:14;font-weight:bold' > href='/mypage.php/$page_id'>$page_name</a><br>"; > > echo "<a style='text-align:left;size:14;font-weight:bold' > href='/mypage.php/".$page_id."'>".$page_name."</a><br>"; > > When I come across the above code in line 1, I have been changing it to what you see in line 2 > for no other reason than it delineates out better in BBEdit. Is this just a preference choice or is > one method better than the other? > > --Rick Neither. My advice, take all the style elements out of the anchor tag. echo("<a href='/mypage.php/$page_id'>$page_name</a>"); Even the '<br>' can be (perhaps should be) handled by css. Cheers, tedd _____________________ tedd@sperling.com http://sperling.com