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Re: Order of Echoed HTML Output [message #179568 is a reply to message #179561]

Thu, 08 November 2012 01:14

Denis McMahon
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 10:04:23 -0800, bobgatski wrote:

> I have this code in a simple php file ...
>
> $which_table_to_dump = "Publisher_Records";
> require ('table2html-i-withbuttons.php');
>
> echo "<br/>back from table2html-i-withbuttons.php<br/>";
>
> ... The file, table2html-i-withbuttons.php (an earlier version was
> called 'dumptable'), simply outputs, using echo, the right html table
> tags, and data from the table, to display the table (specified by the
> variable $which_table_to_dump.
>
> My confusion and problem is that the echo ("back from ...") appears in
> the browser window ABOVE the table!
>
> Can anyone explain why that is?

The only place inside a table that content can appear is inside a cell
within the table (ie inside a td or th).

If you're outputting text outside of the cells but inside the table
structure, then the browser will try and interpret your misplaced text
according to the whims of whoever coded it.

Use the "view source" option of the web browser to see what html is
actually being generated.

Save the following (invalid) html as a file and open it in your browser
if you want to investigate the whims of the coders of your browser.

<html>
<head>
<title>Broken Table</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
text before the rows
<tr>
text before the header cells
<th>header cell 1</th>
text between the header cells
<th>header cell 2</th>
text after the header cells
</tr>
text between the rows
<tr>
text before the cells
<th>cell 1</th>
text between the cells
<th>cell 2</th>
text after the cells
</tr>
text after the rows
</table>
</body>
</html>

In my firefox, all the wrongly positioned text is concatenated with
intervening whitespace into a single text node prior to the table.

Rgds

Denis McMahon

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		Order of Echoed HTML Output By: bobgatski on Wed, 07 November 2012 18:04
		Re: Order of Echoed HTML Output By: Daniel Pitts on Wed, 07 November 2012 19:32
		Re: Order of Echoed HTML Output By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 07 November 2012 20:39
		Re: Order of Echoed HTML Output By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 07 November 2012 20:38
		Re: Order of Echoed HTML Output By: Denis McMahon on Thu, 08 November 2012 01:14
		Re: Order of Echoed HTML Output By: Doug Miller on Thu, 08 November 2012 19:06
		Re: Order of Echoed HTML Output By: bobgatski on Thu, 08 November 2012 18:14
		Re: Order of Echoed HTML Output By: Daniel Pitts on Thu, 08 November 2012 19:01

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