appoint class to PHP table with results from MYSQL db help...

Question

no border shows up when setting style in the table row below, inside the while loop? why? Background color setting works fine, but not this... NO BORDER SHOWS UP...

    // Build Result String
$display_table = "<table>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($qry_result)){

$display_table .= "<tr style='border-top-width: thin; border-top-style: solid;'>"; //  wont work here, why?????

$display_table .= "<td width='110' rowspan='2'>BILD HÄR</td>";
$display_table .= "<td width='377' height='15'>$row[headline]</td>";
$display_table .= "<td width='67' rowspan='2'>$row[insert_date]</td>";
$display_table .= "</tr>";
$display_table .= "<tr>";
$display_table .= "<td height='15'>$row[price]:-</td>";
$display_table .= "</tr>";
}

$display_table .= "</table>";
echo $display_table;

Answer 1

$display_table .= "<tr class='blablabla'>";

or

$display_table .= "<tr class=\"blablabla\">";

obvious, since your closing your string with " in the middle of the line...

Answer 2

You can't use the line

$display_table .= "<tr class="blablabla">";

Because if you look, you're closing the quotes just before blablabla, so PHP interprets that as PHP, not as a string.

If you need to use double quotes in a string, wrap the string in single quotes.

You'd so something like this in the above situation

$display_table .= '<tr class="blablabla">';

Have a look at PHP's strings manual page