Include a css class in an echo

[xmaverick56]

So this is probably an incredibly simple thing to do, but humor me:

I'm using the following to create the navigation for my site in the header.inc:

<?php

        $root = $pages->get("/");

        $children = $root->children();

        $children->prepend($root);

        foreach($children as $child) {

        echo "<li><a href='{$child->url}'>{$child->title}</a></li>";

        }

?>

 

And it works just fine. My total noob hang-up is that I want the <li> markup to be <li class="col"> so that my CSS styles are applied to it. How do I make that happen? 

 

Thanks in advance!

[adrian]

I assume you are having issues with quote matching?

You can take a couple of different approaches:

echo "<li class='col'><a href='{$child->url}'>{$child->title}</a></li>";

echo '<li class="col"><a href="'.$child->url.'">'.$child->title.'</a></li>';

Have a read through some of these links:

http://www.scriptingok.com/tutorial/Single-quotes-vs-double-quotes-in-PHP

http://www.trans4mind.com/personal_development/phpTutorial/quotes.htm

http://techtalk.virendrachandak.com/php-double-quotes-vs-single-quotes/

[xmaverick56]

Evidently I was. Thought I had checked that about a dozen times; sometimes you just need another set of eyes and a few days break.

Thanks!