Div style stepping on CSS class? I'm lost

HTML & CSS
1

code below works fine until there are no messages to echo. my CSS “dayboxes” has a hover that that stops working when there is nothing to echo. if there are messages, everything works fine.

I’m in over my head and need educated please. THANKS!

<tr>
<td>
<div STYLE=" height: 260px; width: 100%; font-size: 13px; overflow: auto;“>
<table border=“0” cellpadding=“0” cellspacing=“1”>
<tr valign=“top” bgcolor=”#FFFFFF">

<?php
// now we write a box of messages

	$class = "dayboxes";
	echo &lt;&lt;&lt;EOD

<td width=“100%” height=“150” class=“{$class}” ondblclick=“javascript:MM_openBrWindow(‘…/messaging/write_email.php’,‘’,‘width=600,height=400’);”>
EOD;

while ($message_array = mysql_fetch_assoc($message_remote))
{
$member_id = $message_array[‘member_id’];
$subject_text = $message_array[‘subject_text’];
$message_text = $message_array[‘message_text’];
$created_when = $message_array[‘created_when’];

    echo $created_when . " " . $subject_text . "&lt;br&gt;"; 
    echo $message_text . "&lt;br&gt;";
	}
	echo "&lt;/td&gt;\

";
?>

		&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;		
&lt;/tr&gt;
2

Hi, PHP does us no good here :). We would like to have a link to look at taht way we can access your images and make it easier for us to debug since it’s already online.

If you could put up an example test page for us to work with that’d be nice.

3

I’m testing the code on my localhost. it’s not online. let me re-phrase the question please. how would you go about this:

you have a table that displays messages from DB. you want the whole table to “light up” on mouse-over (hover). that highlighting effect kind of prompts the user - “hey, I can double click this”. when they do a new window opens containing a form to write more messages.

the code I have does all of this, except when there are no messages in DB to display. when there are no messages I see no messages, I lose hover effect, and my default background color is gone too. But otherwise I’m very close… but I really don’t understand how all this works together and need some advice please. Thank You!

4

did you want the TABLE, or the CELL to light up? If your css is coded so that you light up the CELL , and your php renders NO CELL when you have no items, then it would lead to what you are describing, as you ensentially have a cell-less table.

5

sorry Dresden, forgot some key info:

contents of message display window must scroll too. all was well until I added this line of code right above the table.

<div STYLE=" height: 260px; width: 100%; font-size: 13px; overflow: auto;">

6

I want the whole table to light up, and it did until I got cute with the scrolling thing. but I must have it.