Formating Cell Width

Beeky1

I am using the following code for a table bringing back basic data from my database:

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

$table = "<table border=\"1\"cellspacing=\"10\" body bgcolor=\"#AABBCC\" width=300 Align=Center>\n";
            $tableHead = " <tr>
                    <th>Member No</th>
                    <th>First Name</th>
                    <th>Surname</th>


              </tr>";

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

$tablerow .= "    <tr>
                <td>".$row['member_id']."</td>
                <td>".$row['FirstName']."</td>
                <td>".$row['Surname']."</td>
                                </tr>";
}

//$tableEnd .= "</table>";
$tableEnd = "</table>\n";

I want to be able to set the width of the member_id cell but although I have looked at various examples on the web I don't seem to be able to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated.

NogDog

I'd recommend using a class and styling it via your CSS stylesheet.

PHP/HTML:

<td class='foo'>

CSS:

.foo {
   width: 50px; /* or use "em" or "pt" instead of "px" as desired */
}

Beeky1

Sorry but I am not familiar with css style sheets.

NogDog

Beeky1;10965860 wrote:
Sorry but I am not familiar with css style sheets.

I would strongly recommend you become familiar with them, as they are a fundamental part of any reasonably modern web application (as far as the user interface goes). You can use an in-line style such as:

<td style='width: 50px;'>

But using a class (or ID) with a separate CSS style file is more flexible, plus the stylesheet file gets cached by the browser, so it does not need to be downloaded with each page request that uses the same stylesheet.

w3schools CSS section

Beeky1

Thank you. I will try to get to know CSS style sheets. The trouble is that there is so much to learn it is hard to know where to start.

NogDog

Beeky1;10965894 wrote:
Thank you. I will try to get to know CSS style sheets. The trouble is that there is so much to learn it is hard to know where to start.

And it's a moving target, too. 🙂