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[lauralee]

I have an edit page that allows an administrator to do some simple edits like bold, italic, adding paragraphs, breaks and others, but I cannot get the color of the text to change using <span> I have it in my helpers include file as://[rd]red text $text = preg_replace('/\[rd](.+?)\[\/rd]/i', '<span="rd">$1</span>', $text);and in the css file as:span.rd {color:#ff0000;}But nothing happens. Is there a special coding I should know about for changing text color?

[Fmdpa]

You did "span=rd". It should be <span class="red">

[lauralee]

That was a silly typo on my part. I now have it as: //[rd]red text $text = preg_replace('/\[rd](.+?)\[\/rd]/i', '<span class="rd">$1</span>', $text);but still no results.

[Fmdpa]

What is the value of $text? Click "view source" on your browser to check that it is not converted to html entities.

[lauralee]

This is how it comes out on the source page, which is the way it should be, except that it isn't showing the text Police Dogs in red.<p><span class="rd">Police Dogs</span> </p>All the other formatting like bold, italic, new paragraph work properly. I've checked the css to make sure it is correct and that I have the stylesheet link correct. Anything else I should check?

[lauralee]

Well, I don't know what I did....But it seems to be working now. Maybe I didn't have the stylesheet referenced properly. Anyway, thanks for your replies.

[thescientist]

This is how it comes out on the source page, which is the way it should be, except that it isn't showing the text Police Dogs in red.<p><span class="rd">Police Dogs</span> </p>All the other formatting like bold, italic, new paragraph work properly. I've checked the css to make sure it is correct and that I have the stylesheet link correct. Anything else I should check?

that still showed the class as rd

[Fmdpa]

that still showed the class as rd

That's how it was referenced in the stylesheet.

[Ixzion]

Well, I don't know what I did....But it seems to be working now. Maybe I didn't have the stylesheet referenced properly. Anyway, thanks for your replies.

I'm just throwing this out there, but you might have been viewing a cache of your document. Whenever I try to view a change in CSS, I always right-click on a page and select Reload (Firefox/Chrome) or Refresh (IE) in order for it to get a fresh view.

[jeffman]

Ixzion is most likely correct.

[Fmdpa]

That's why I turn the cache completely off on my development browsers.