aligning text within a table

[Hamish]

Hi All,

 

I have a table presenting the returns from a MySQL query, the table is itself aligned "centre".

I would like to align the cell contents "left aligned".

 

echo("<center><table border = \"1\">");

echo("<tr><td><b>Col1</b></td><td><b>Col2</b></td><td><b>Col3</b></td><td><b>Col4</b></td>");

// loop round each record

while ($rec = mysql_fetch_array($result))

{

echo("<tr><td>" . $rec["Col1"] . "</td>");

echo("<td>" . $rec["Col2"] . "</td>");

echo("<td>" . $rec["Title"]. " " . $rec ["FirstName"] . " " .$rec["SName"]. " " ."</td>");

echo("<td>" . $rec["Col4"] . "</td>");

}

echo("</table></center>");

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Regards

Hamish

 

 

 

[cyrilsnodgrass]

Hi Hamish,

 

Should you not use <td align=''left"> ????

 

Cheers,

 

CyrilSnod

[clown[NOR]]

and from what I also can see... you havent closed the <tr></tr> tag at the end there

[Hamish]

Thanks for all the help again.

 

The closing tag  was copy and paste error.

 

Regards

Hamish

[Hamish]

Hi All

The <td align=left> formats the data correctly,

However on Transitional validation W3C

gives the following error:

 

An attribute value specification must be an attribute value literal unless SHORTTAG YES is specified.

 

Could anyone enlighten me please?

 

Hammish

[AndyB]

echo "<td align='left'>" .... always use quotes with attributes. Just watch out for mismatched ' and " sets

[Hamish]

Thanks AndyB,

 

Now no errors on validation.

 

Cheers

Hammish