Make table wider

[mr cracker]

Hello.

 

i have this code:

$tabla="tbl_familias";   //NOMBRE DE LA TABLA A MOSTRAR

$result = mysql_query("select * from $tabla");

echo "<table bgcolor=\"#DBEDE9\" align=center  style=\"border:5px outset green\">";

for ($i = 0; $i < mysql_num_fields($result); $i++)

{

	print "<th>".mysql_field_name($result, $i)."</th>\n";

	}

	while ($registro = mysql_fetch_row($result))

	{

		echo "<tr>";

		foreach($registro  as $clave)

		{

			echo "<td bgcolor=\"white\"style=\"border:2px groove black\" align=\"center\">",$clave,"</td>";

			}

			}

echo "</tr></table>";

 

 

i get this table:

 

 

 

but its too small, and i want to make it bigger / wider.  I've tried using width like  this:

 

echo "<table bgcolor=\"#DBEDE9\" align=center width="600"  style=\"border:5px outset green\">";

 

but i get: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_LNUMBER, expecting ',' or ';'

 

 

Thanks.

[Alex]

You have to escape the quotes.

 

echo "<table bgcolor=\"#DBEDE9\" align=center width=\"600\"  style=\"border:5px outset green\">";

[mr cracker]

Thank you, its working nicely now.    I'm a begginer.

Why do i have to "escape" them ?

[Alex]

To open and close the echo you're using double quotes, so if you want to use double quotes anywhere inside of the string you must escape them, so it doesn't think you want to stop the echo there.

[mr cracker]

ok, now i get it. Thank you

[Alex]

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