Question

i’d like a basic idea of how to go about formatting the following paging of the search result.

this is the paging code:

  //Create and print the Navigation bar
       $nav="";
       $next = $page+1;
       $prev = $page-1;
       if($page > 1) {
            $nav .= "<div class=\"search_mainpg\"><div class=\"searchpage\" style=\"width:5%;\"><a onclick=\"showPage('','$prev'); return false;\" href=\"$self?page=" . $prev . "&q=" .urlencode($search_result) . "\">< Prev</a></div>";

            $first = "<div class=\"searchpage\" style=\"width:2%;\"><a onclick=\"showPage('','1'); return false;\" href=\"$self?page=1&q=" .urlencode($search_result) . "\"> << </a></div>" ;
        }

        else {
            $nav .= "&nbsp;";
            $first = "&nbsp;";
        }

       for($i = 1 ; $i <= $numpages ; $i++) {
            if($i == $page) {
                $nav .= "<b>$i</b>";
            }else{
                $nav .= "<div class=\"searchpage\" style=\"width:2%;\"><a onclick=\"showPage('',$i); return false;\" href=\"$self?page=" . $i . "&q=" .urlencode($search_result) . "\">$i</a></div>";
            }
        }

        if($page < $numpages) {
            $nav .= "<div class=\"searchpage\" style=\"width:5%;\"><a onclick=\"showPage('','$next'); return false;\" href=\"$self?page=" . $next . "&q=" .urlencode($search_result) . "\">Next ></a></div>";

            $last = "<div class=\"searchpage\" style=\"width:2%;\"><a onclick=\"showPage('','$numpages'); return false;\" href=\"$self?page=$numpages&q=" .urlencode($search_result) . "\"> >> </a></div></div>";
        }

        else {

             $nav .= "&nbsp;";
             $last = "&nbsp;";
        }

        echo  $first . $nav . $last;

currently, it displays like this:

alt text http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/2765/paginate.jpg

Answer 1

Try changing the <div> tags to <span> instead. div is a block tag, whereas span is inline. Think like <p></p> versus <i></i> where the one is designed to put space above & blow the content, the other just modifies the view.

One other thing, is that you use <b>$i</b> to bold the current one. This should also be a span or div or whatever you’re using, so you can easily modify it by CSS later on.