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jlsohio

06-19-2003, 02:28 AM

This is part of my PHP code for a HTML page.

The problem I'm having is I cant get the data in the table row to center. Right now the data is left justified. What do I have to add to the code below to center my data in the table row?

Thanks.

jls

$table_row = "<tr>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=24%>$row[Horse]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Starts]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[First]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Second]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Third]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=13%>$row[Record]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=15%>$row[Earnings]</td>";
echo "$table_row\n";

Spookster

06-19-2003, 02:41 AM

Formatting content in your pages is a HTML/CSS issue not a PHP issue. I will move you to that forum...

MotherNatrsSon

06-19-2003, 02:54 AM

Try adding this to your <tr> tag like this

<tr align="center" valign="middle">

That will put it in the middle of the <td> from right to left and top to bottom both.

MNS

jlsohio

06-19-2003, 05:48 PM

It didn't work, got parsing error. This is what I entered:

$table_row = "<tr align="center" valign="middle">";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=24%>$row[Horse]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Starts]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[First]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Second]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Third]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=13%>$row[Record]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=15%>$row[Earnings]</td>";
echo "$table_row\n";

Then I tried it like this:

$table_row = "<tr>";
$table_row .= "<td align="center" valign="middle WIDTH=24%>$row[Horse]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Starts]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[First]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Second]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Third]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=13%>$row[Record]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=15%>$row[Earnings]</td>";
echo "$table_row\n";

Spookster

06-19-2003, 06:30 PM

You need to escape quotation marks

align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\">

MotherNatrsSon

06-19-2003, 06:42 PM

Sorry about that...wasn't paying attention.

$table_row = "<tr align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\">";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=24%>$row[Horse]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Starts]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[First]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Second]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=12%>$row[Third]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=13%>$row[Record]</td>";
$table_row .= "<td WIDTH=15%>$row[Earnings]</td>";
echo "$table_row\n";

That should get you what you need

MNS

giz

06-19-2003, 08:38 PM

You might need to escape those closing tags as well...

So </td> simply becomes <\/td>

Spookster

06-19-2003, 09:10 PM

Originally posted by giz
You might need to escape those closing tags as well...

So </td> simply becomes <\/td>

Those won't affect it. These are strings so the only characters that have the potential to affect the string are single or double quotes and backslashes.

jlsohio

06-19-2003, 11:33 PM

Thanks guys,

It works great!

jls

giz

06-20-2003, 01:07 AM

>> Those won't affect it. <<

My bad. It's javascript where you must escape those.

Going back to sleep.....