there are a massive number of possible reasons. you really should do some research on css display types, as I'm assuming `right` is supposed to be a element with "float: right" but "span" tags don't respond to floats unless they have been set as block-level elements
On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 7:07:32 PM UTC-7, fugee ohu wrote: > > $('#message_holder').append('<div class="container"><span class="right">' > + data.content + '</span><br></div>') > > The string gets appended to the message_holder div like so: > > <div class="container"><span class="right">9</span><br></div> > > but the styling defined in .right doesn't get applied What to do? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/735ab3ca-5818-4f77-95ea-bdec093bb03c%40googlegroups.com.