how to change background colour in echo

Question

i am trying to apply the background color in echo using an inline style but it is not applying background color in however changes only the text color. i want to change backgrou

Answer 1

Try like

echo "<p style='color:orange;background-color:red;'>record number: ".$rec_num. "</p><br>";

You have to end ' single quote after the background-color style.

Answer 2

Or you can ajust only the print lines with styles

print "<p style='color: red;border: 1px solid black;height:20px;box-shadow: 1px 1px 7px;'>"."message!: ".$db_field['TEXTAREA1'] . "<br>";

after this i got an fancy box around the text =) i love boxes in many ways

so no echo where placed only print {} function

Many thanx and good luck

ps ['textarea1'] <-- is assigned to database so it reads only that table

Answer 3

try

echo "<div style='background-color:red;'><p style='color:orange'>"."record number:     ".$rec_num. "</p></div>"."<br>";