Response Write Syntax help

j2911 · April 26th, 2009, 11:56 AM

Hi,

First I apologize, I'm not a coding person, but I need some assistance please. I want to make the asterisks in this line of code red and normal html is not working.

Response.Write(" **Address Information must match your credit card billing information** ")

I have tried:

Response.Write(" **Address Information must match your credit card billing information** ")

and I get an error.

Please help!
Thank you so much!

Imar · April 26th, 2009, 01:47 PM

Hi there,

The font tag has been depricated a long time ago, and as such it's no longer recommended to use it. Instead, you should use CSS. You probably already have some CSS in your page that overrules the color set by the font tag. If that's the case you can't even use the font tag anymore. Try this:

Code:

Response.Write("<br /><span style="color: red;">*</span>.... rest of the code here")

Rather than applying a style to a span, you could also use a CSS class. Add the following to your CSS file:

Code:

 
.Attention
{
  color: red;
}

Then modify your code as follows:

Code:

Response.Write("<br /><span class="Attention">*</span>.... rest of the code here")

With this code, you can now control the color of the attention text from a single location.

For more information on CSS: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...470096977.html

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Imar

j2911 · April 26th, 2009, 04:00 PM

Hi,

I've tried that too and this is the error I get...

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03ee'
Expected ')'
/auth/payNextUpdate.asp, line 152
Response.Write(" **Address Information must match your credit card billing information** ")
-----------------------------------^

Thank you!

Imar · April 26th, 2009, 04:03 PM

Sorry about that. Forgot to double the quotes in the string:

Response.Write(" *.... rest of the code here")

By doubling them, their value is treated as a literal, rather than the end of the string you're writing.

Cheers,

Imar

j2911 · April 26th, 2009, 04:16 PM

IMAR! You ROCK! Thank you so much!!