Syntax for setting column width

[mondeoman]

Hopefully this is a fairly simple question. I have a page that shows a table that derives its data from an MySQL db. I want to be able to vary the column widths individually but I am have trouble getting the right syntax. Can anyone show me how to change the width say of the column Event? The code for this part of the page is:

$table = "<form method=post><table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"10\" body bgcolor=\"#AABBCC\" Align=Center>\n";
$tableHead = "<tr>
<th>Event</th>
<th>Start Time</th>
<th>End Time</th>
<th>Date</th>
<th>Member</th>
<th>Financial Year
<select name='year' onchange='form.submit();'>
<option>2010</option>
<option>2011</option>
<option>2012</option>
<option>2013</option>
<option>2014</option>
<option>2015</option>
<option>2016</option>
<option>2017</option>
<option>2018</option>
<option>2019</option>
<option>2020</option>
</select>
</th>
</tr>\n";

$tableHead = str_replace("<option>$year</option>","<option selected>$year</option>",$tableHead);

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

$tablerow .= "<tr>
<td>".$row['EventName']."</td>
<td>".$row['StartTime']."</td>
<td>".$row['EndTime']."</td>
<td>".$row['EventDate']."</td>
<td>".$row['Member']."</td>
<td>".$row['financialyear']."</td>
</tr>\n";

}
$tableEnd = "</table></form>\n";
?>

 

[vacunita]

All you do is set the width for any cell in the column:

<th width='###px'>

or <td width='###px'>



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[feherke]

Hi

<th width='###px'>

or <td width='###px'>

That should be either [tt]<td [maroon]width[/maroon][teal]=[/teal][green]"###"[/green]>[/tt] or [tt]<td [maroon]style[/maroon][teal]=[/teal][green]"width: ###px"[/green]>[/tt] : no unit in the [tt]width[/tt] attribute, unless it is [tt]%[/tt].

Alternatively you can put the [tt]width[/tt] in some [tt]col[/tt] tags too.

By the way, this has nothing to do with PHP.


Feherke.

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[vacunita]

Correct, on both counts. oops.

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[mondeoman]

Hi and thanks. Yes I did actually try this and for reason it did not work. I also realise that it is not strictly php but I wondered if because the file is a php file this had anything to do why it wasn't working. So for example amongst others I tried: <td> width="###">".$row['EventName']."</td>

 

[vacunita]

This is wrong, you can't close the <td> tag and then try to add an attribute.

<td[COLOR=white red]>[/color] width="###">

Look at our examples.



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[vacunita]

Man I wish there was an Edit post button.
Anyway, since your tags are already inside double quotes from the PHP string variable, you can't use double quotes.

So:

<td width=[COLOR=white red]'[/color]###[COLOR=white red]'[/color]>

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[mondeoman]

Thank you - stupid me. Didn't realise about the quote marks.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Now it indeed became PHP issue. The conclusion : if your code modification is not working, post that non-working code. Posting the original correct code does not help in debugging your mistake.


Feherke.

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[mondeoman]

OK - take the point - thank you anyway