CSS ASP expected ')'

[johneecc]

Hi,

I am having a heck of a time trying to figure this one out. I am not a pro with CSS or ASP. I know VBScript fairly well.

There is a Expected ')' error in the line with the "a href" between the two <li> tags. It has to do with how I am trying to display the Description to screen.

What I am trying to do is display the description of the image and then when you hover/mouse over the description the image will appear.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

I managed to do this with an image preview, but switching this to text it isn't working.
Here is where I got the image working from:
http://host.sonspring.com/hoverbox/
main site:
http://sonspring.com/journal/hoverbox-image-gallery

Working code for the image preview:

Response.Write ("<tD ALIGN=""CENTER" " BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF >")
Response.Write ("<li>")
Response.Write ("<a href=""#"">
<img src=""Image_Web _Gallery\Image_ " & rsGetRecords("S taticImageTimed Number") & ".jpg"" /><img src=""Image_Web _Gallery\Image_ " & rsGetRecords("S taticImageTimed Number") & ".jpg"" class=""preview "" /></a>")
Response.Write ("</li>")
Response.Write ("</tD>")

What I am trying to do:

Response.Write ("<tD ALIGN=""CENTER" " BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF >")
Response.Write ("<li>")
Response.Write ("<a href=""rsGetRec ords("StaticIma geTimedDescript ion")""> rsGetRecords("S taticImageTimed Description") <img src=""Image_Web _Gallery\Image_ " & rsGetRecords("S taticImageTimed Number") & ".jpg"" class=""preview "" /></a>")
Response.Write ("</li>")
Response.Write ("</tD>")

[DrBunchman]

John,

Is the code you printed in your first post your actual working code? If so I think there is a little error which may be causing your problem. You wrote:

Response.Write ("<a href=""rsGetRecords("StaticImageTimedDescription")""> rsGetRecords("StaticImageTimedDescription") <img src=""Image_Web_Gallery\Image_" & rsGetRecords("StaticImageTimedNumber") & ".jpg"" class=""preview"" /></a>")

This needs to be changed to:

 
Response.Write("<a href=""" & rsGetRecords("StaticImageTimedDescription") & """>" & rsGetRecords("StaticImageTimedDescription") & "<img src=""Image_Web_Gallery\Image_" & rsGetRecords("StaticImageTimedNumber") & ".jpg"" class=""preview"" /></a>")
 

Notice there are a couple more &'s in my version which are joining the strings and the requests together. By leaving out the &'s the string will think it has finished and expect a closing parenthesis ) .

Give that a try and let us know how it goes.

Cheers,

Dr B

[DrBunchman]

And in answer to your question about quote marks:

A double quote (") marks the beginning and end of a string. If you want to place a double quote inside a string you need to use two double quote marks (""). These are interpreted as one double quote mark inside the string.

However note that in most instances you can use a single quote inside a string instead of two doubles e.g

Response.Write( "<img src=""test.jpg" " alt=""test"" />")

Can be re-written as:

Response.Write( "<img src='test.jpg' alt='test' />")

Which looks much cleaner!

Hope this helps,

Dr B

[CroCrew]

Hello johneecc,

I would stay very clear from using double quotes. It is too easy to get turned around using them. My example above does not use them and when I tested it the results work for me. If it did not work for you then I think what DrBunchman said might be true in that something in your data is corrupt. Did you try out the example above?

Have a good day~

[johneecc]

DrBunchman, what you listed worked. aaaaahhhhh Thank you for solving my issue.
I also tried using the single quotes too and it also worked. Thank you for explaining the difference between all the quotes.

CroCrew thanks for all your help too. Greatly appreciated.