HTML Help

[Ben E Lou]

I'm trying to determine a better way to output FOF rookie bars to a forum. Right now, I'm doing it the "easy" way, but it's taking up a ton of room. Need 75 grey bars? Output 75 instances of a 1-pixel wide grey bar. But I've determined that I can save a ton of room in the database if I can figure out how to reduce it to background elements or something. I've tried divs, but they want to take me to another line.

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I've just got two variables: $bluestart (length of the initial grey bar) and $blue (length of the blue bar.) So right now, it's a couple of for loops:

PHP Code:

FOR ($counter=1;$counter<=$bluestart;$counter += 1)
            {
            IF ($counter==25 OR $counter==50 OR $counter==75) {$bars.= "<img src = \"{$leagueurl}blackpic.png\">";}
                ELSE {$bars.= "<img src = \"{$leagueurl}greypic.png\">";}    
            }
FOR ($counter=1;$counter<=$blue;$counter += 1)
            {
            IF ($counter+$bluestart==25 OR $counter+$bluestart==50 OR $counter+$bluestart==75) {$bars.= "<img src = \"{$leagueurl}blackpic.png\">";}
                ELSE {$bars.= "<img src = \"{$leagueurl}bluepic.png\">";}    
            }
            $bars.="</td><td><font face = \"Verdana\" color = \"#{$dark}\" size = \"1\" ><b>{$row29['lowbar']}<->{$row29['highbar']}</td></tr>"; 


Maybe I was doing something wrong with the way I was trying to do it with a div. I tried this:

PHP Code:

$bars.="<td><div>.<div style=\"width: {$greyone}; background-color: #888888\">.</div><div style=\"width: {$blue}; background-color: #AAAAFF\">.</div><div style=\"width: {$greytwo}; background-color: #888888\">.</div></div></td>"; 


The periods are in there because if I put nothing, I get nothing. But with any text in there (like the period) I get this:

http://www.fof-ihof.com/write_pick_test.php

Ideas? I *know* there's got to be a way to do this.

[Ben E Lou]

Bump for the work-week crowd...

[chinaski]

Since its just a 1px solid color png, why not just use the img width=x? At least that way it wont be repeating.