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Fill the appropriate onclick attribute with JavaScript code to open the new location.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2010-10-31 04:05:00

While technically correct, that's not likely to be much help to someone that's new at this.

bemace 2010-10-31 04:11:21

Thanks Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams , wots JavaScript ? {lol} an 'onclick` popup formatting thinggy would be helpful only dont get them with notepad.

simples 2010-10-31 15:53:28

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Anchor tags (<a>) cannot contain table rows or cells. To make the entire row clickable, you must bind an onclick handler with JavaScript or wrap the contents of each individual <td> element with its own <a> tag.

meagar 2010-10-31 04:08:51

Answer 3

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Hi,

If what you are looking for is a way to make a link out the area of the row where your links is do the following:

In the PHP file:

echo "<td><a class=\"mylink\" href=\"" . $row['website'] . "\">" . $row['website'] . "</a></td>";

In the CSS file:

.mylink{display:block;}

That should do it.

redhatlab 2010-10-31 04:12:05

This is going to result in a tag with no content, and no `</a>`.

meagar 2010-10-31 14:23:11

@meagar: I corrected the code. Thank you for the heads up.

redhatlab 2010-10-31 15:37:40

thanks redhatlab, not got to CSS yet , understand that it controls all the sites formatting and could be very helpful and save loads of time later on.

simples 2010-10-31 15:42:35

have made a .css file called CSS.css and have tried the above , am now getting `website` in one box {unclickable} and then again in the next column under a different heading { yet its clickable only it now adds the site url its on and the url of where to go to [eg http://mysite.net/www.yahoo.com thus results in a no go link] and the data that's spouse to be in that column is nowhere to be seen.

simples 2010-10-31 16:54:50

` needed to delete a line of text has stopped the extra box.

simples 2010-10-31 17:06:23

Why not just use single quotes within the string instead of escaped double quotes? Also, since the point of double quote strings in PHP is variable substitution, use the {} syntax instead of breaking the string to concatenate. For example `echo "<a class='mylink' href='{$row['website']}'>";`

Alex JL 2010-10-31 17:50:37

Answer 4

A:

If you just want the a regular link inside a table cell what you want is

<td><a href="<?= $row['website'] ?>"><?= $row['website'] ?></a></td>

If you were actually trying to make the entire table row clickable, you need to use a javascript redirect set on the table row:

<tr onClick="window.location='<?= $row['website'] ?>'">
    <td><?= $row['website'] ?></td>
</tr>

bemace 2010-10-31 04:22:09

I will recommend you to use the full tag for php. Use <?php instead of just <?.

redhatlab 2010-10-31 15:38:55

@redhatlab - You have fun typing that out every time then. Some of us have better things to do.

bemace 2010-10-31 15:49:52

I have tried the above line as a straight copy n paste and also including echo before and with ; and sum extra " get the same sort of error *** Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/a6332763/public_html/res.php on line 29 ***

simples 2010-10-31 16:31:07

@simples - it's hard to say what the problem would be without seeing the code around it

bemace 2010-10-31 16:43:44

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM leader");echo "<table border='1'><tr><th>id</th><th>Club</th><th>Website</th><th>Club Badge</th></tr>";while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo "<tr>"."<tr>"; echo "<td>" . $row['id'] . "</td>"; echo "<td>" . $row['club'] . "</td>"; echo "<td>" . $row['website' ] . "</td>"; echo "<td><a class=\"mylink\" href=\"" . $row['website'] . "\">" . $row['website'] . "</a></td>"; echo "</tr>"; }echo "</table>";mysql_close($con);?>

simples 2010-10-31 16:59:14

@simples - it's really hard to read code in comments. I still don't see the source of the parse error. Try updating your question with the entire page's code if it's not too big.

bemace 2010-10-31 17:08:04

@bemace there's no reason to assume that the server on which simples is working has short tags enabled. Many hosts do not enable short tags.

Alex JL 2010-10-31 17:45:36

@Alex - simples is free to use whichever style he prefers, as is everyone else. I was just responding to be told how to write *my* code.

bemace 2010-10-31 17:50:43

He can't use them if his host does not have short tags enabled in their php.ini. I'm not sure whether short_open_tags can be enabled at run time or not.

Alex JL 2010-10-31 18:00:34

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