What does turn out to work is just to drop the quotes in the embedded style sheet. So both of these work:
<table width="$main_table_width" align="center" valign="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"
bgcolor="$main_table_border_color">
and:
<style type="text/css"> table{border:1px solid $main_table_border_color; text-align:center;width:600px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;} </style>
I remain confused as to why quotes and not quotes. I do understand why echo
doesn't work.
Without seeing more of the script I can only assume that it uses the HEREDOC syntax to output HTML
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc
Something like
echo <<<STYLE
<style type="text/css">
table{border:1px solid $main_table_border_color;
text-align:center;width:600px; margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;}
</style>
STYLE;echo <<<HTML
<table width="$main_table_width" align="center" valign="center"
border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"
bgcolor="$main_table_border_color">
HTML;With HEREDOCs, the variables are interpreted and the values they store are echoed. Whether quotes are needed or not needed depends on the syntax rules for HTML. In the style sheet they are not used and in the table tag they are not strictly required or could be single quotes. Placing quotes in the style definition breaks the syntax rules for HTML/CSS.
Sheila
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