keeping cell width constant

hello

i am using perl to grab data from a mysql db and i want to populate a table with it. i have done this, but the column widths seem to keep on chaging depending on the length of the data. how can i keep the column widths constant no matter how long the data?

Thanks in Advanced

In order to accomplish this, just add the 'width' option to your 'td' (column) table tag(s). So your table HTML code would look like this:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">code:</font><HR><pre>
<table width="275">
<tr>
<td width="100">
this is column 1
</td>
<td width="175">
this is column 2
</td>
</tr>
</table>
[/code]

Hopefully this helps. If not, let me know.


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dr. cyclops

oh, i got it, thanks, i did a silly mistake and used <table> at every single row so that it redid the row length.