Building a table within a while loop

[idontbelonghere]

I am trying to create a table that will sort the different elements of an array into cells, but I can't figure out how to put the html tags (< tr >, < td >, etc.) without having these tags repeat everytime the loop is executed...right now the end result is scattered and full of spaces...any help?!?

The layout of the table I'm looking for is:

<tr><td>title1</td><td>title2</td></tr>
<tr><td>$status[first]<br></td><td>$status[second]</td><tr>

Thanks!

[cgraz]

<?

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM your_table");

echo "<table width=600 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>"; // note outside the while loop

while($status=mysql_fetch_array($query)) {

  print "<tr><td width=300>Title1</td>\n";
  print "<td width=300>Title2</td></tr>\n";
  print "<tr><td width=300>" . $status["first"] . "</td>\n";
  print "<td width=300>" . $status["second"] . "</td><tr>\n";

}

</table> // note this is outside the while loop

?>

Cgraz