Re: Easy Question -- Show/ Hide text based on output of query

On Wednesday 06 February 2002 02:14, Edward R. Bailey wrote: Please keep the discussion on the list! > Thanks for responding! Yes the "memberNotes" database field only > contains information in about a third of the records so I wanted to hide > the entire field and label when their was no relevent data. > > I made the change you suggested, but the field label does not show up > when "memberNotes" contains data. As follows is the current script. Is > what what you suggested? > > > <?php If ($memberNotes) { > $notes = "<div align=\"/left\"/><font > size=\"/-1\"/><b>Notes:</b></font></div>"; > } else { > $notes = "<div align=\"/left\"/><font > size=\"/-1\"/><b></b></font></div>"; > } > ?> What are those forward slashes (/) doing in $notes? Try getting rid of them, they don't look very HTML to me :) Also try echo($notes) OUTSIDE of a <table> construct to see what it contains. hth -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk /* Q: What do Winnie the Pooh and John the Baptist have in common? A: The same middle name. */