Re: Formatting problem...

I'm not sure I understand your problem... this is what it looks like on my machine (your url that is) http://www.adhesivemedia.com/~philip/gigs.gif IE 5.5 on w2k On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Chris Cocuzzo wrote: > hey- > > this is a little bit off topic, but it relates. I'm pulling a field called > info from my db. When I entered the info into the db in the first place, I > added the '\n' character so that the HTML result wouldn't be all on one > line. The problem is that when the page displays...the text in that > particular part of the table doesn't look right...there's a significant > space in between the bottom of the cell where there is some text, and all of > the other text. I have a feeling it's because of the way the text is written > in between the tags.. > > here's the example: > Here's the code that results in the odd formatting... > <td width="292" bgcolor="#a9a9a9" valign="top"> > <font face="verdana,arial" size="1" > color="#ffffff"><?php echo > stripcslashes($gdata["info"]);?></font> > </td> > > here's html from when i did this same page without any php elements(nearly > the same)... > <td width="292" valign="top"> > <font face="verdana" size="1">We're playing once again at the > Corner area > of the Middle East. > Show starts at 10pm, free admission. This one is apparently 18+, but if > you're a risky person > you can try to get in to eat/drink before we play and then stay for the > show. > </font> > </td> > > notice that the text in the second one is spaced out on a few lines, but > there isn't a line break anywhere...that text in the second example looks > correct in the browser... > > here's the page with the problem: www.fplg.net/gigs.php > > anyone else have this problem?? > > chris > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >