Table not showing Boarders

r2ks

I have a table that when it populates with data from the data base if a Name is missing or any data i get no boarders in IE7 it works in FireFox fine

echo "<TABLE BORDER=2 align=center  >";
	echo "<TR><TD><B>Username</B><TD><B>Password</B><TD><b>Name</b><td><b>Street</b><td><b>City</b><td><b>State</b><td><b>Zip</b><td><b>Phone </B><td><b>E-Mail</b><td><b>info</b><td><b>Admin</b><TH COLSPAN=3><b>Options</b></TH>
	</TR>";
	while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result))
	{
	echo "<TR><TD>".$myrow["username"]."<td>".$myrow ["password"]."<td>".$myrow["name"]."<td>".$myrow["street"]."<td>".$myrow["city"]."<td>".$myrow["state"]."<td>".$myrow["zip"]."<td>".$myrow["phone"]."<td>".$myrow["email"]."<td>".$myrow["info"]."<td>".$myrow["admin"];
	// "<TD><a href=\"_view.php?id=".$myrow['id']."\"> <img src= ".$img_view." ></a>";
	echo "<TD><a href=\"_deleteparticipant.php?id=".$myrow['id']."\"> <img src= ".$img_delete.">  </a>";
	echo "<td><a href=\"updateparticipant.php?id=".$myrow['id']."\"> <img src= ".$img_edit.">  </a>";

}
echo "</TABLE>";

any Help ??

NogDog

My first suggestion would be to run the resulting HTML through the HTML Validator and make sure your output mark-up is solid. (If it has any errors, then browser's are forced to "guess" what you intended, and they don't all make the same guesses.)

PS: The use of attributes such as border and center is deprecated, and really should be handled via CSS.

rsmith

I agree with the above. Also when I'm outputting HTML I still make sure to encase the attribute values in 's. For example:

echo "<table align='center' border='2' cellspacing='2' cellpadding='0'>";
echo "</table>";

r2ks

Thank you Both I have done some research and found the issue lies in IE 6 & 7 The sugestions i have found is to use the <td> </td> and or rap the table with css #table{
empty-cells:show} I have tried Both and i still get boarders not showing up i would use the <td> </td> But i get Php errors ????

cretaceous

for every opening '<td>' , you must have a corresponding closing '</td>'

you don't appear to have any closing </td> tags

non valid html will render randomly

cretaceous

also you are using double quotes everywhere:

echo "<TR><TD>".$myrow["username"]...

should be

echo "<TR><TD>".$myrow['username']...

NogDog

cretaceous;10933611 wrote:
also you are using double quotes everywhere:

echo "<TR><TD>".$myrow["username"]...

should be

echo "<TR><TD>".$myrow['username']...

I see no difference in those two. PHP won't care if the array index is in single or double quotes. (It will just care that the opening and closing quotes are of the same type.)

r2ks

Thank you to the both of you Nogdog i agree Single or double quotes did not make any diffrence...

echo "<TABLE BORDER=2 align=center> ";
	echo "<TR><TD><B>Username</B></td><TD><B>Password</B></td><TD><b>Name</b></td><td><b>Street</b></td><td><b>City</b></td><td><b>State</b></td><td><b>Zip</b></td><td><b>Phone </B></td><td><b>E-Mail</b></td><td><b>info</b></td><td><b>Admin</b></td><TH COLSPAN=3><b>Options</b></TH>
	</TR>";
	while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result))
	{
	echo "<TR><TD>".$myrow["username"]."</td><td>".$myrow ["password"]."</td><td>".$myrow["name"]."</td><td>".$myrow["street"]."</td><td>".$myrow["city"]."</td><td>".$myrow["state"]."</td><td>".$myrow["zip"]."</td><td>".$myrow["phone"]."</td><td>".$myrow["email"]."</td><td>".$myrow["info"]."</td><td>".$myrow["admin"]."</td>";
	 //"<TD><a href=\"_view.php?id=".$myrow['id']."\"> <img src= ".$img_view." ></a>";
	echo "<TD><a href=\"_deleteparticipant.php?id=".$myrow['id']."\"> <img src= ".$img_delete.">  </a></td>";
	echo "<TD><a href=\"updateparticipant.php?id=".$myrow['id']."\"> <img src= ".$img_edit.">  </a></td>";

}
echo "</TABLE>";

I have added the </td> to all td tags and still no diffrence .... it works fine in Firefox but not IE 7 ??? Crazy

cretaceous

yup my mistake I'm so used to seeing it like:
echo "<TR><TD>$myrow['username']

.. but your end of row needs closing with </tr>

echo "</tr>";
}
	echo "</TABLE>";

r2ks

I am so sorry for being a pain in the neck i just don't understand why it is not working ???

echo "<TABLE BORDER=2 align=center> ";
	echo "<TR><TD><B>Username</B></td><TD><B>Password</B></td><TD><b>Name</b></td><td><b>Street</b></td><td><b>City</b></td><td><b>State</b></td><td><b>Zip</b></td><td><b>Phone </B></td><td><b>E-Mail</b></td><td><b>info</b></td><td><b>Admin</b></td><TH COLSPAN=3><b>Options</b></TH>
	</TR>";
	while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result))
	{
	echo "<TR><TD>".$myrow["username"]."</td><td>".$myrow ["password"]."</td><td>".$myrow["name"]."</td><td>".$myrow["street"]."</td><td>".$myrow["city"]."</td><td>".$myrow["state"]."</td><td>".$myrow["zip"]."</td><td>".$myrow["phone"]."</td><td>".$myrow["email"]."</td><td>".$myrow["info"]."</td><td>".$myrow["admin"]."</td>";
	 //"<TD><a href=\"_view.php?id=".$myrow['id']."\"> <img src= ".$img_view." ></a>";
	echo "<TD><a href=\"_deleteparticipant.php?id=".$myrow['id']."\"> <img src= ".$img_delete.">  </a></td>";
	echo "<TD><a href=\"updateparticipant.php?id=".$myrow['id']."\"> <img src= ".$img_edit.">  </a></td>";
	echo "</TR>"; 	
	}

echo "</TABLE>";

Please see attachment: tried to attach file and it is not working Screen Shot

cretaceous

get rid of this <TH COLSPAN=3>Options</TH>
and see if that fixes it
its not correct html

else

get page in your browser, do view source, select all, copy and paste into direct entry box here
http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input

that will show some of the html errors

fix your html errors and border will reappear!

Weedpacket

cretaceous wrote:
get rid of this <TH COLSPAN=3>Options</TH>

That is correct HTML, but the tags should not be necessary (typically the contents of <th> elements are emphasised already) and all the column headers ought to be <th> elements.

r2ks: have you considered using CSS to specify the table's border, instead of the (deprecated) border= and align= attributes? And, for that matter, specifying bold text?

cretaceous

not correct if you look at the database driven row which has 13 cells
upper title row has 14 cells
(though I admit when I counted earlier I thought it was out by 3 not 1)

Weedpacket

I admit I didn't count them all (my aesthetic sensibilities were too sensitive🙂). However, it would still validate (even with the view column commented out), so short of a browser bug it shouldn't cause faulty rendering.