Help! Where Did My Prices Go?
October 11, 2007 by Lillie
In my last post, I linked back to an article on the cost of self-publishing. At the time, I noticed all the amounts showed as zero and made a note to go back and correct the post.
However, the post was written correctly, but every number that had a dollar sign before it appeared as a zero when the post was published. For the time being, I’ve put a space between the dollar sign and the number – I know that’s wrong, and I hate to make deliberate mistakes. 
I’d rather do that, though, than to have the cost of self-publishing appear as zero in my post.
Does anyone have any ideas? What can I do to make a dollar amount print correctly? I suspect it’s something in the style sheet of my theme … but I have no idea what. Maybe the same glitch that puts all emoticons on the left of the post, regardless of where they were really inserted and that left aligns all images no matter what alignment I specify when I write the post.
Thanks for any suggestions you can make.
Note: This just seemed to be a quirk of the theme I was using at the time. After I changed themes, I had no more problems.
I have no idea what it could be. Probably something in your style sheet, but coding can get so odd at times. I’m the exact same way when it comes to being a perfectionist when speaking and writing, the title of your blog really caught my eye for that reason.
Your prices display correctly on my screen. What browser are you using?
Lillie,
That seems really odd–but at least you’ve figured out a way around it. That was very resourceful of you! Hope you get it figured out soon, though.
I’ve also noticed that all comments left on your blog are centered, rather than left-margin justified. Is that another of those odd occurrences, or have you chosen that formatting for your comments?
Jeanne
I know what you mean! Hopefully, someone will come along who knows the answer. And, even if they don’t, I guess we should look at the bright side: Centered comments are a relatively minor problem. At least we’re able to leave comments!
Jeanne
Can’t say that I blame you!
Holly,
Glad to meeet another perfectionist.
Hope to see you back here often.
Mig,
I went back and inserted a space between the dollar sign and the number. The numbers can be read that way. But if I do it the normal (at least normal in the US) way of putting the dollar sign immediately before the number ($1), all I get is zeroes.
Jeanne,
I’ve been hoping someone could solve my dilemma here in a comment.
When I got Brian’s Threaded Comments working again – thanks to help in a comment! – the comments aligned center. I haven’t decided whether it’s worth trying to figure it out or not.
I really like the threaded comments plugin – if the comments were left-aligned, that would be even better. But unless someone has an easy answer, I’m not going to spend time figuring it out.