£ sign in <p>

unwashed potato! · 21 Oct 2006 at 00:01

trying to write a price list in a paragraph element but when i put £ its comes up with some black diamond shape thing. Anyone know how to correct?

also i have a list of places but the bullet points are off the page wrapper thing. Any way i can make it so just them are slightly indented and not any other list i write?

also i dont need a proper explanation just a simple explanation of how a form works using php? i tried using mailto when the user clicks submit as i don't know php too well yet but i didn/t like that it loaded the users outlook express, just wanted it to mail to me.

robmiller · 21 Oct 2006 at 00:05

Set your page's character set to UTF-8, either server side or with a meta tag in your head.

unwashed potato! · 21 Oct 2006 at 00:42

it already is, this is what i have put

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Augmented · 21 Oct 2006 at 00:47

If the server is sending its own header for the character encoding, then the <meta> tag setting will have no effect. You need to check what the server's sending, and amend the configuration as necessary.

To simplify matters, you can insert a pound character with an HTML entity, for a quick fix:

Code:

&[b][/b]#163;
or
&pound;

unwashed potato! · 21 Oct 2006 at 01:01

well the site isn't online yet so no server. the thing it loads is in FF, in IE it loads a ?.

the html entity worked anways.

any other answers to the other questions?

Phaser · 21 Oct 2006 at 12:01

Set a class to the list items you want styled differently to the others.

Augmented · 21 Oct 2006 at 12:09

addy_010 said:
also i dont need a proper explanation just a simple explanation of how a form works using php? i tried using mailto when the user clicks submit as i don't know php too well yet but i didn/t like that it loaded the users outlook express, just wanted it to mail to me.

It works like a regular form - the form's action points to a PHP script. So, when you submit the form, it sends all the data entered in the form to the script. The script then processes, validates and formats the data, like name and message, and lastly it will usually use the mail() function to email these details out to you. It may then finally display a success message to the user when that has been successful.