[Dropdown Menu Help Please]

beermantm:

 

Thanks. I'll take a look at what you offered and see what I can come up with. Much appreciated.

[Dropdown Menu Help Please]

I made a navbar (I guess that's what it's called) for my website. Horizontal. It has the look I want and it works. But I have client-related pages that will fill their respective navbars up fast, making them crowded, probably even falling off the right side of the pages. So I need to make my existing format into a dropdown type. I tried to integrate tutorial code I found online into making this, with bad results. The navbar background color (#000) grew in height when a submenu item dropped down, instead of that menu item alone being #000. Would someone look at my code and get me headed in the right direction with the current style I have?

 

 

<div id="navigation">
        <ul>
              <li><a href="index.html" class="active"><span>Home</span></a></li>
              <li><a href="about.html"><span>About Us</span></a></li>
              <li><a href="services.html"><span>Services</span></a></li>
              <li><a href="register.php"><span>Register</span></a></li>
              <li><a href="client.php"><span>Client Area</span></a></li>
              <li><a href="contact.php"><span>Contact Us</span></a></li>
        </ul>
</div>

 

#navigation {

    font-family: ambleregular;

    font-size: 1.1em;

    float: left;

    width: 100%;

    background-color: #000;

}



#navigation ul {

    margin: 0;

    padding-left: 62px;

    text-transform: uppercase;

}



#navigation ul li {

    list-style-type: none;

    display: inline;

}



#navigation li a {

    display: block;

    float: left;

    padding: 5px 10px;

    color: #fff;

    text-decoration: none;

    border-right: 1px solid #fff;

}



#navigation li a.active {

    display: block;

    float: left;

    padding: 5px 10px;

    color: #fff;

    background: #696969;

    text-decoration: none;

    border-right: 1px solid #fff;

}



#navigation li a:hover {

    background: #2F4F4F;

}



#navigation li a:active {

    background: #C0C0C0;

}

That's what I'm using. Thanks for any and all help.

 

[Teaxtarea Wiped Out After Form Submission]

Great information. Thank you, Ben. I see that I was making my mistake by using "value = " in echoing the textarea variable. Seems that value isn't used with textarea at all. Who'd've thunk it?

[Teaxtarea Wiped Out After Form Submission]

And this is an issue because if the user has made a mistake on the form and has to make a correction, he/she also now has to retype everything in the textarea again before re-submission. And the textarea's the only input device that loses its input. Input boxes are fine, as are the selected select options. Is this a natural behavior? Is there a way around it?

[Textarea Filling With Blank Spaces]

What does the code for your textarea look like? Do you have spaces between <textarea> and the closing </textarea> ?

 

Is this considered "spaces" between those tags?

<p>
    <label for="details" class="label">case details:</label><br>
    <textarea class="txtarea" rows="14" cols="50" name="details" placeholder="Case Details" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['details'])) { echo $details; } ?>">
    </textarea>
	<span class="error"><?php echo $detailsErr;?></span>
</p><br>

UPDATE: I wld have never thought that butting the tags together cld make such a difference, but your suggestion was the ticket. Many thanks, Ben. Very much appreciated.

[Textarea Filling With Blank Spaces]

I have a form with a textarea. Every time I load the page, I can't see the placeholder text because blank spaces magically appear in the textarea box. I have to click inside it and drag my mouse to capture all the blank spaces to delete them out. This happens on every textarea box I set up. All my input boxes show their placeholder text except this one. Just looks kinda tashy. Is this a known issue with textarea boxes? Is there something I can do to make sure the box is cleared out upon loading my form?

[Pdo Conditional Select Statement]

Hello Forum:

 

I'm just now trying to learn PHP and read that using PDO was a better way to utilize online databases. I have my Registration page completed, storing client info in a MySQL db, all done using PDO. However, I'm having a little trouble with the Login page. I don't know if I'm using the PDO stuff the right way.

 

    $stmt = $db->prepare('SELECT (username, password) FROM members WHERE (username) LIKE ? AND (password) LIKE ?');
    $stmt->bindValue(1, "%$uname%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $stmt->bindValue(2, "%$pwd1%", PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $stmt->execute();
    echo $affected_rows = $stmt->rowCount();

I'm not sure if I have the bindValue statements right, and I'm only assuming (hence the echo statement) that, if this is a valid username and password, one row will be affected. Like I said, I'm new to PHP, and this is my second day. So I imagine I have this code all wrong. Can someone set me on the right track? Much appreciated.

 

~Landslyde