table size

[Anon]

Hello All,

I've been trying to get my table so the width stays at 80% and the text wraps itself inside the table. The "details" field however can be very long. The problem is my table stretches and the section details will go on 3 long lines rather than a bunch of smaller ones. Here's my code.

What's wrong with this:

print"<table border='1' width='80%'>";

$sql="SELECT hotelName, details, phone, address, link
FROM accommodations
WHERE orgID='$orgID'";

$result = mysql($dbName, $sql);

while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result)){
$hotelName=$row[0];
$details=$row[1];
$phone=$row[2];
$address=$row[3];
$link=$row[4];

print"<center><font size='5'><b>$hotelName</b></font></center><br>";
print"<center>$details</center><br>";
print"<center><b>Phone:</b><br>$phone</center><br>";
print"<center><b>Address:</b><br>$address</center><br>";
print"<center><b>More Info:</b><br><a href=\"$link\"><u>$link</u></a></center><br></td></tr><tr></tr>";
print"</td></tr>";
}

print"</table>";

Can anyone see the problem. Thanks for your time.

[herve]

If there's new line characters in your $detail variable, then you could use nl2br()
function ; this is a first way of "splitting"
the long lines.

Also check carefully your HTML tags

<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="80%>

<-- First row -->
<TR ALIGN="CENTER">

<-- Then cells in the row : -->
<TD> $hotelname </TD>
<TD> $detail </TD>
<TD> $phone </TD>
<TD> ... >/TD>
</TR>

</TABLE>

You should have a <TR></TR> couple for every
row, and a <TD></TD> for every cell (every
column) in a row

[Anon]

Looks like your HTML code is all messed up.

Should be:
<table>
<tr><td>stuff</td></tr>
</table>

But what you have typed is:
<table>
stuff
</td></tr><tr></tr></td></tr>
</table>