Title: Formatting date – PHP/CSS Code-Question
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Formatting date – PHP/CSS Code-Question

 *  Resolved [colognevice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colognevice/)
 * (@colognevice)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-date-phpcss-code-question/)
 * Hello,
 * i want to format the date something like this (it doesn’t work because i’m not
   good in PHP).
 * <?php the_date(‘d’, ‘<p class=”date”><span>’, ‘</span></p>’); ?>
    <?php the_date(‘
   M Y’, ‘<p class=”date”>’, ‘</p>’); ?>
 * 1st line is day with span-tag
    2nd line is month and year without span-tag
 * I want to make the Day-Number bigger via CSS, so i have to separate the day to
   make a SPAN around it. The PHP might not be correctly.
 * An idea how it’s combined correctly?
 * Thank you!

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 *  [Andrei Olsen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebulus/)
 * (@nebulus)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-date-phpcss-code-question/#post-2398687)
 *     ```
       <?php
       echo '<p class="date"><span>'. get_the_date('d') .'</span></p>';
       echo '<p class="date">'. get_the_date('M Y') .'</p>';
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [colognevice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colognevice/)
 * (@colognevice)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-date-phpcss-code-question/#post-2398695)
 * Hooray!
 * THANK YOU!!!

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