Evil tables!

[R.a.B.B.i.T]

Okay, so here's the problem (it's writtin in PHP...so..whatever):
My code (below) to display a entries in a table is fine..I think. When I view the page in Firefox, it's good, BUT when I refresh, with no changes having been made, the bottom 2 (I only have 3 entries at the moment) tables take up 100% width, instead of 80%. The source says 80% as width, however. Now, when I tried this in Internet Explorer, they stayed the same, all fine and dandy. Anyone know what's going on?

  $i=0;
  $query=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM packagestable") or die(mysql_error());
  $num=mysql_num_rows($query);
  //echo "\n<br \><br \>";
  while($i<$num)
  {
    $title=mysql_result($query,$i,"title");
    $author=mysql_result($query,$i,"author");
    $descr=mysql_result($query,$i,"description");
    $price=mysql_result($query,$i,"price");
    $lang=mysql_result($query,$i,"language");
    echo "\n\n\n<center \><table width=80% border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=1 \>\n";
    echo "<tr \><td \><font face=verdana size=1 \>Package Name:</td \>\n";
    echo "<td ><font face=verdana size=1 \>" . $title . "</td \></tr \>\n";
    echo "<tr \><td \><font face=verdana size=1 \>Programmer(s):</td \>\n";
    echo "<td ><font face=verdana size=1 \>" . $author . "</td \></tr \>\n";
    echo "<tr \><td \><font face=verdana size=1 \>Language(s):</td \>\n";
    echo "<td ><font face=verdana size=1 \>" . $lang . "</td \></tr \>\n";
    echo "<tr \><td \><font face=verdana size=1 \>Price:</td \>\n";
    echo "<td ><font face=verdana size=1 \>". $price . "</a ></td \></tr \>\n";
    echo "<tr \><td \><font face=verdana size=1 \>Description:</td \>\n";
    echo "<td ><font face=verdana size=1 \>". $descr . "</td \></tr \>\n";
    echo "<tr \><td \><font face=verdana size=1 \>Order:</td \>\n";
    echo "<td ><a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=Order" . $i . "\" \>Order Me </td \></tr \>\n";
    echo "</table \></center \><br \><br \><br \>\n";
    $i++;
  }
  echo "\n"; 

[CornedBee]

In HTML, you may only omit quotes around attribute values if the value consists only of alphabetic OR only of numeric characters. A mix of the two or any non-alphanumeric characters require the use of quotes.
In XHTML, quotes are always mandatory.

That means that, for valid HTML, you have to do this:
<table width="80%" border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=1 >
and for valid XHTML:
<table width="80%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" >

This may or may not be the source of the error.

Two more things:
1) mysql_result is not recommended. The mysql_fetch_* functions are far faster and even easier to use in this case.
2) Your HTML is hopelessly outdated. The use of the <center> and <font> tags is not good. They are deprecated.

[R.a.B.B.i.T]

Eh...I'll update then, but I'm so used to the old stuff :\

[ober0330]

Your old stuff will slowly begin to be removed from future browsers (or at least I hope). Switch now to avoid problems.

[eros]

iieew start using templates mate.

[ober0330]

This thread is nearly a month old... and you bumped it for that?

[AvisSoft]

Does this helps ?

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM packagestable") or die(mysql_error());
//echo "\n<br><br>";
while($num = mysql_fetch_array($query))
{

        echo "\n\n\n<center><table width=80% border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=1>\n";
        echo "<tr><td><font face=verdana size=1>Package Name:</td>\n";
        echo "<td><font face=verdana size=1>" . $num[title] . "</td></tr>\n";
        echo "<tr><td><font face=verdana size=1>Programmer(s):</td>\n";
        echo "<td><font face=verdana size=1>" . $num[author] . "</td></tr>\n";
        echo "<tr><td><font face=verdana size=1>Language(s):</td>\n";
        echo "<td><font face=verdana size=1>" . $num[description] . "</td></tr>\n";
        echo "<tr><td><font face=verdana size=1>Price:</td>\n";
        echo "<td><font face=verdana size=1>". $num[price] . "</a></td></tr>\n";
        echo "<tr><td><font face=verdana size=1>Description:</td>\n";
        echo "<td><font face=verdana size=1>". $num[language] . "</td></tr>\n";
        echo "<tr><td><font face=verdana size=1>Order:</td>\n";
        echo "<td><a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=Order" . $num . "\">Order Me </td></tr>\n";
        echo "</table></center><br><br><br>\n";
}
echo "\n";