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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Building a Media Library in PHP Adding Active States to the Navigation

Oliver Sewell
Oliver Sewell
14,723 Points
Posted by Oliver Sewell
Oliver Sewell
14,723 Points

why do we use a space before the on class

` echo " on";

??

2 Answers

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,584 Points

Hi Oliver,

There's already a class name there, for example, class="books"

If you don't put the space before "on" then the new class value would be "bookson"

Instead we want it to be "books on" with a space between. It's 2 separate class names.

Oliver Sewell
Oliver Sewell
14,723 Points
Oliver Sewell
Oliver Sewell
14,723 Points

Thankyou for the speedy answer

Charlie Guan
Charlie Guan
7,284 Points
Charlie Guan
Charlie Guan
7,284 Points

Or, instead of saying 

echo ' on'

you can also do it like this:

<li class="books <?php if ($section == "books") {echo "on";} ?>">

Leave a blank space between books and the opening tag of php code.