Table cell width <td>problem in php

Hi

I need to display content of a mysql table in a table form to display in a web page.
Also every table is different with different number of columns.

The problem I am having is that when there is alot of columns, the table automatically squeezes all the cells to fit in the space provided.
BUT when it displays data from a table with just a few columns, it gives alot of space to the first column and squeezes the rest.

by the way the first column is always called "part_number".

I have tried to set a width='8 px" for example to limit the first column but nothing seems to work.
How can I :
a) limit the first column so it does not take any more room that is necessary. (It may be that after I limit the first column width, the second column might misbehave, but I will worry about that when I have fixed the first column problem).
b)Ideally distribute space equally between columns.

.....
.width{
width: 8px;

}
...


echo ("<table class='table_center' border='1'  >");
		
			$arr=array("ipbushes", "mpbushes" , "ifbushes", "mfbushes" ,"msolidbars", "mplates","sp_gr");
		
		foreach($arr as  $val)
{

		
			$result = mysql_query("   SELECT * FROM $val		 WHERE part_number = '$partnumber'     ");  	
			
			if (@mysql_num_rows($result)) {
			break;
			}
	}
		
		$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
		echo $row[1];
		
				echo ("<tr class='title'>");
				
	// test for first data i.e. part_number			
$first_data=0;				
				
foreach($row as $k=>$v)
{

if ($first_data==0)
{
echo("<td class=\"width\">$k</td>");

} 
else
{

   echo("<td >$k </td>");
}

$first_data=$first_data+1;	  
 }
 

Code (markup):

Thanks for your time

 

For me it looks fine, maybe post your generated HTML code here, as this is more of a HTML CSS question then PHP.

 

This is a CSS question.
Solution:
add "table-layout: fixed;" to the table class
add "overflow: hidden;" to the width class

 

in fact, there is something wrong in your css.

you should set the width in class titlebecause you have set <td> to use that class, like this:

.title {
width: 8px;
}