Pagination Not Displaying

I am a front-end designer/code trying to style up pagination for a web app. It is called in one section of the application and called it with the following:

开发者_JS百科<?php echo $pagination;?>                  

And I used CSS + the Pagination JS file to style it up.

In another section of the application, which I have just been asked to style, it is called with this:

<?php echo $pages;?>

And looks entirely unstyled. When I replace $pages with $pagination the page control no longer appears. When I run a search for $pages through our repository I see no matches for $pages (not even in the pagination file).

Anyone have any idea why pagination breaks the control?

Thanks!

EDIT: I did a really bad job of explaining this. The problem is that I can find a reference to the variable $paginate in the repository (in paginate.js) and I was able to assign a CSS class to it through that JavaScript file, but I can't find any references to $pages, which I just can't wrap my head around. If I change the variable to something else that I think is defined (such as $paginate) it no longer displays the pagination.

EDIT: Figured it out, it was in the controller in CodeIgniter.

Well, I'm not quite sure if I my answer will help, but as far as I undertood your question

1. When $pages is called, in the source don't you see the HTML tags that those pages are? Why don't you try not assign smth in javascript but make styles in your CSS according to those html tags that are generated?

for ex.

<div class="smth">
    <div class="your_$page_div">
         <ul>
            <li>text</li>
            etc...

In your CSS do smth like div.smth div.your_$page_div ul li {some stile} so you won't have to replace anything and assign smth in core file.

I hope I correctly understood what you were asking :P Cheers!

I just saw you figured out the problem