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This Canadian is confused, and feeling dumb with this C... - 7/18/2006 19:16:13
I had a person help me out with a form that needed to be combined with some PHP code. When he got the form, it was in straight HTML (that is all I know) and have multiple fields on one line. He prefers to read things down a page, not across, so when I got it back, there was one field per line (row) which doesn't suit me for this purpose. The problem is that he has used CSS and I don't understand or know it at all (however, I can see I need to catch up on the times) and now I am having a heck of a time getting more than one field on a line, and have it line up like I want. It is set up so that it keeps the rows all nice an neat, but I need to be able to move it around, and have 2 fields on one row, and 6 on another, but it is spreading it all out.
Can someone explain the benefits of CSS to me, and also help me by telling me if this is going to be very hard to change.....
EDIT: Skip the benefits of CSS, I just found a tutorial that I will go through and then will understand it all.
here is the code for the form...
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>For Sale 4 U QUICK LISTER</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: Gainsboro;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 72%;
color: black;
}
table {
width: 96%;
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
form {
width: 98%;
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.red {
color: Red;
}
.error {color:#C03; font-weight:bold; }
h3 {
text-align: center;
color: Red;
font-weight: bold;
}
h4 {
text-align: center;
color: Blue;
font-weight: bold;
}
.center {
text-align: center;
}
.bold {
font-weight: bold;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Quick Lister</h3>
<p class="center"><span class="red">For Sale 4 U - Canada's Online Auction</span></p>
<p class="center"><span class="bold">Please note: </span>You may
not use characters such as $, #, ", &, *,/, etc. It is best to use normal
text and numerical characters only. <BR><BR><BR>
<?php
$trace = array();
if (!$valid) {
?>
<h4>Please correct the items in <span class="error">red</span> and resubmit.<br /><br /> </h4>
<?php
}
?>
<HR>
<form method="POST" action="sample.php">
<table>
<td valign="top" <?php if(in_array('id',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>> User ID:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="id" size="12" value="<?php echo disp_val('id') ?>">
You must use the <span class="bold">same User ID</span> for all items you are uploading during this session.(It does not have to be your regular username.)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('item_title',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>> Item Title:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="item_title" size="60" value="<?php echo disp_val('item_title'); ?>"</td>
<td <?php if(in_array('item_category',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Item Category:</td>
<td> <select size="1" name="item_category">
<?php disp_options($categories,'item_category','',true) ?>
</select>
<? if (isset($err_msg['item_category'])) echo ' <span
class="error">' . $err_msg['item_category'] . '</span>'; ?>
</td></p>
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('item_type',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Item Type:</td>
<td><select size="1" name="item_type">
<?php
$tmp = array();
for ($i=1;$i<count($itemType)+1;$i++)
$tmp[] = '<option value="' . $i . '"' . is_selected('item_type',$i,0) . '>' . $itemType[$i] . '</option>';
echo "\t\t" . implode("\n\t\t",$tmp) . "\n";
?>
</td></select>
<td <?php if(in_array('quantity_available',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Quantity:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="quantity_available" size="3" value="<?php echo disp_val('quantity_available') ?>"</td></tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('starting_bid',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Starting Bid:</td>
<td> <input type="text" name="starting_bid" size="7" value="<?php echo disp_val('starting_bid') ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('bid_increment',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Bid Increment (auction only):</td>
<td><input type="text" name="bid_increment" size="7" value="<?php echo disp_val('bid_increment') ?>"><? if (isset($err_msg['bid_increment'])) echo ' <span class="error">' . $err_msg['bid_increment'] . '</span>'; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('reserve_price',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Reserve Bid (auction only ):</td>
<td><input type="text" name="reserve_price" size="7" value="<?php echo disp_val('reserve_price') ?>"><? if (isset($err_msg['reserve_price'])) echo ' <span class="error">' . $err_msg['reserve_price'] . '</span>'; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('duration',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Ad Duration:</td>
<td><select size="1" name="duration">
<?php $tmp = array();
for ($d=1;$d<31;$d++)
$tmp[] = '<option value="' . $d . '"' . is_selected('duration',$d,'14') .'>' . $d . '</option>';
echo "\t\t" . implode("\n\t\t",$tmp) . "\n";
?>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('end_hour',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>End Time:</td>
<td> <select size="1" name="end_hour">
<?php disp_options($hours,'end_hour',20,true); ?>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td <?php if(in_array('auto_relist',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Auto Relist:</td>
<td><select size="1" name="auto_relist">
<?php disp_options($yesno,'auto_relist',1,true); ?>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('city',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>City:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="city" size="15" value="<?php echo disp_val('city') ?>"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('state',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Province/State:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="state" size="10" value="<?php echo disp_val('state') ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('country',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Country:</td>
<td><select size="1" name="country">
<?php disp_options($countries,'country',32,true) ?>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" <?php if(in_array('item_description',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Item Description:</td>
<td colspan=8><textarea rows="4" name="item_description" cols="116"><?php echo disp_val('item_description') ?></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('paypal_id',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Paypal ID (Optional):</td>
<td><input type="text" name="paypal_id" size="25" value="<?php echo disp_val('paypal_id') ?>">
</tr>
<tr>
<td <?php if(in_array('hit_counter',$err)) echo 'class="error"'; ?>>Hit Counter:</td>
<td><select size="1" name="hit_counter">
<?php disp_options($hc,'hit_counter',0,true); ?>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
</tr>
<td colspan="2"><hr></td>
<tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" class="center">
<span class="bold"><br>Please verify all details shown for your item before pressing the SAVE button.</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" class="center"><br><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="SAVE ITEM"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" class="center"><BR>You will be guided through this Multi Step Process. Please be sure
to use the <span class="bold">same User ID</span> when entering your items or they will not all
be listed correctly.</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
< Message edited by jaybee -- 7/20/2006 19:17:58 >
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