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Joseph Damiani
1,066 Pointsnav-sprite.png for shirt appears with white background
I've completed the Creating the Headers and Footers section. I embedded the code to underline the Shirts and Contact. The image for Shirts now displays as a white box when you navigate to the home page (index.php). How do I fix this?
2 Answers
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Joseph,
You might notice the "shirts" and "contact" link are underlined too.
The reason this is happening on the homepage is because the $section variable is undefined on that page because we didn't need to use it. However, the scripts in the navigation are still running and we're checking if an undefined variable is equal to something. This is causing a php error.
To avoid this we can use the php isset() function to make sure that the variable is set first, before we try to see if it is equal to something.
<li class="shirts<?php if ( isset($section) && $section == "shirts") { echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="shirts.php">Shirts</a></li>
<li class="contact<?php if ( isset($section) && $section == "contact") { echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></li>
If you would like more details about this, like why the background was white or why the links were underlined then I wrote more about this in another post here: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/creating-the-menu-and-footer-render-error
Joseph Damiani
1,066 PointsThat worked! Thank you for your help, Jason.