Question

I’ve seen many question which are almost what I am looking to do and have led me to almost be able to get it but not quite.

I want to format text as follows within a <p> tag which is within a div.

Page 1 of 2

So in ordinary HTML I used the b tag within the paragraph but can’t seem to figure out how to do that with DomDocument. When I try to create an element like so

$pTag = $dom->createElement("p", "Page <b>1</b> of 2");

It outputs just that without recognising the as HTML. So I thought about it and came up with

$pTag->nodeValue .= 

as a way to append a new element but that did no good. It didn’t give me any errors but it didn’t append the <b> tag either. This seems like something that should be simple but doesn’t seem to be.

When I tried echo it outputted the text to the top of the screen, not where I wanted it.

I’d appreciate any advice.

Answer 1

Something like the following should work:

$bTag = $dom->createElement("b", "1");
$pTag = $dom->createElement("p");
$pTag->appendChild($dom->createTextNode("Page "));
$pTag->appendChild($bTag);
$pTag->appendChild($dom->createTextNode(" of 2"));