On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:13 -0600, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > cool@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > SORRY FOR THE EXTRA 2 BAD pre SENDS (accident...) > > > > > > Thank for all the help! > > > > Getting there... as a baby step - I'm trying this: > > > > (part of this is from - http://sperling.com/examples/pcss/) > > > > 1 - I created this style sheet page called css.php with these contents: > > > > ================ > > > > .test1 { > > font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; > > color: #0099FF; > > font-size: 18px; > > } > > > > <?php > > header("Content-type: text/css"); > > $color = "green"; // <--- define the variable > > echo <<<CSS > > /* --- start of css --- */ > > .title-text > > { > > color: $color; /* <--- use the variable */ > > font-weight: bold; > > font-size: 1.2em; > > text-align: left; > > } > > /* --- end of css --- */ > > CSS; > > ?> > > > > ------------------------- > > > > 2 - I created this test page called testcss.php with these contents: > > > > PROBLEM: the 'test1' style shows up - but the 'title-text' doesn't seem > > to work > > btw: even added this : media="screen" from demo .... > > How do I get it to show up? > > > > ====== > > > > > > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> > > <head> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> > > <title>Untitled Document</title> > > > > <link href="css.php" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" /> > > </head> > > > > <body > > > <p>test <span class="test1">this</span></p> > > > > <p class="title-text">and this</p> > > </body> > > </html> > > > > > > =================== > > > > > > Thanks, > > cool@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > You need to do the header() before anything else. > > > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com > Like I mentioned in my first reply to this, you need to set the content type of the output in css.php: header("Content-Type: text/css"); That way, the server sends down the right headers to the agent that is requesting the CSS. By default, PHP outputs a content type of text/html, and your browser thinks it got HTML instead of CSS so does nothing. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
