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[Aaron Fischer]

Another option is popping in an <img> tag pointing to your 1x1 
transparent spacer image instead of the &nbsp;.  This is also a good 
question to post to the front end mailing list 
<front-end at lists.nyphp.org>.

Hmm, email program is acting funky, apologies if this is a duplicate 
post.

-Aaron

On Feb 10, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Chris Bielanski wrote:

> What browser are you viewing in? AFAIK the &nbsp; should do the 
> trick...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Wolf [mailto:wiw at nyc.rr.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:14 PM
>> To: talk at lists.nyphp.org
>> Subject: [nycphp-talk] Q) learning php - drawing table border around
>> empty <td>
>>
>>
>> I have a question about populating a table with values from a
>> query that
>> sometimes are null.
>>
>> When the table's drawn, no border is drawn around those <td>
>> elements which
>> looks awkward.  I've tried doing some things where I force in
>> "&nbsp;" into
>> the query results but it doesn't seem to take take.  Suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>> $result = mysql_query("select show_id, month, day, year,
>> location, details ,
>> venue
>>                       from $database_table order by year,
>> month, day",$db)
>>                       or die_now("<h2>Could not select shows</h2>" );
>> ...
>>
>>     while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
>>        $the_id = $row["show_id"];
>>        $the_month = $row["month"];
>>        $the_day = $row["day"];
>>        $the_year = $row["year"];
>>        $the_location = $row["location"];
>>        $the_details = $row["details"];
>>        $the_venue = $row["venue"];
>>
>> ...
>>
>>      // shows
>>      echo("\t<tr align='left'
>> valign='top'>\n\t\t<td><b>$the_month" . "/" .
>> "$the_day" . "/" . "$the_year" . "<b></td>\n");
>>
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