Formating text in ASP with CSS

[MonicaX]

I'm not an asp programmer, so don't mock me. I am working with one however, who usually says "It can't be done" without giving it much thought. Sometimes he proves to be right, other times not. My question is, can you apply CSS to text generated with whatever this code does?

"Label.Value = "Hello World"

or

response.write Replace(HTMLTemplate.GetHTML("main"),"</body>","<center><font face=""Arial""><small>Text Goes Here</small></font></center></body>")

Thanks,

Monica

 

[vongrunt]

Why not... IF text serves only for printing (response.write) and nothing much else. That's why programmers always rant about "mixing data and presentation". Here is (still ugly) example:

response.write Replace(HTMLTemplate.GetHTML("main"), "</body>", "<div style='text-align: center; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;'>Text Goes Here</div></body>")

 

[MonicaX]

I see what you mean. I can see how you can format with HTML, but can you link text to style sheets? Like the Label.Value thing where I'm guessing is how you print varying text from a database or something -- can you link that to a style sheet?

Thanks

 

[MonicaX]

I tried this, wich I thought might work -- no dice. Any ideas? The positioning works, but not the font attributes. Some kind of syntax problem that conflicts with asp?

<div id="Layer1" style="position:absolute; left:78px; top:122px; width:196px; height:128px; z-index:1" class="StyleNameHere">{Label}</div>

 

[MonicaX]

vongrunt,
It's pretty dumb to reply to yourself twice, I know. But I've aswered my own question. I can just apply the CSS to a cell (duh!)then have the text flow in to that. It's messy I know but you can put the cell in a div and move it anywhere. Problem Solved.

Thanks for helping me think it through.

Monica

 

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