header() statements placement within <div>

[truezplaya]

Hi
I am making a mash up and i have a CSS layout. I am trying to send a page to a certain area of the CSS once a link is clicked. I am having trouble just sending a page to part of the CSS. Can anyone see whats wrong and point me in the right direction.

<div id="leftcol" <?php header("location:test.html")?> </div>
            <div id="footer" >
                        <?php header("location:test.html")?>
                        </div>
 

i'm not sure if the php has to be inside the div or inbetween the divs either way i can't get it to work !
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Truez

[ronverdonk]

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[ronverdonk]

What are you trying to do? This makeup makes no sense at all. It makes no difference whether you put the header() statement within or outside any divs because the header statement is never shown at your HTML page!

Or did you want to show hotlink there? In that case you must use the <a href=xxx tags. when you place tose within those divs they will show at your browser page.

Anyway the first div should be closed as

<div id="leftcol"> 

Ronald

[truezplaya]

Hi
Yeah i will try and change it as soon as possible, What i would like to do is: When someone clicks on a button, the page related to that button opens up in the leftcol or footer area of my CSS instead of opening up in a new window.

Am i going about this the wrong way?

Cheers
Truez

[ronverdonk]

You cannot just put a html page in a div, just like that. You can use an iframe. But:
the best option would be to use Ajax on this. That way you go, after the click, via JS to the server and return the data. Upon return from the server the JS Ajax routine will put the data in the div.

Ronald

[Markus]

You could use a php include();