On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:25 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:40:03PM +0530, Shreyas Agasthya wrote: > > > Team, > > > > A bit of silly one but like my book says, there are no dumb questions, I am > > asking it here. > > > > If I have : > > > > $other="Whatever"; > > > > and I do: > > > > echo 'Other Comments:' .$other. '<br/> > > > > works perfectly well and prints the value. What if I want to, now, italicize > > the value of $other with the above syntax? How do I achieve it? > > > > I know we can do it this way : echo " I am <i>$other</i>"; but I want to > > learn how to do it with the above syntax like I mentioned earlier. > > No, there's no other way to do it. You're outputting to HTML, and if you > want to have the HTML output italicized, you must surround the term with > the proper code. And in this case, the proper code is actually '<em>', > not '<i>'. The '<i>' code is being deprecated. > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > Another option: echo 'Other Comments: <span style="font-style: italic;">'. $other .'</span><br/>'; or create a style sheet, with a class definition for italic. Steve. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
