it's changing my text color after sending a form

[eluser]Dennis Rasmussen[/eluser]
[quote author="teampoop" date="1291246253"]If your server has short tags enabled, <?php is not required. Yes, it is part of CI's best practices, but shouldn't be used as a judgement on the persons knowledge of the language.[/quote]

Why not?
Not every server supports short tags, so yeah you CAN actually judge people on that and many other things as well.