Displaying a fieldset within td ... help please.... very urgent

Question

Can any one help me how to do display a <fieldset> from within a <td>.
I am trying to do this:
for a_rec in (select * from table_name) loop
htp.p('<table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 nowrap>');
IF a_rec.main_category <> ' ' THEN
htp.p('<td colspan=3 valign=top nowrap><fieldset><legend>
<font color=black><B>'||a_rec.main_category ||':'||'</B></font></legend></td>');
ELSE
htp.p('<td colspan=3 valign=top nowrap><fieldset><legend>
<font color=white><B> Not categorized:'||'</B></font></legend></td>');
END IF;
htp.p('</table>');
end loop;
This is not putting the fieldset correctly.
can anyone help me on this please....
thanks in advance
Balachander V Venmani.

Answer 1

Honestly, I'm not even sure what you're trying to do. That is not meant to be an insult, it just means that you've successfully confused me. Here is your code, neatly formatted:
<div style="margin: 20px; font-size: 90%; font-family: courier;">
for a_rec in (select * from table_name) loop<br>
    htp.p('&lt;table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 nowrap>');<br>
<br>
    IF a_rec.main_category &lt;> ' ' THEN<br>
        htp.p('&lt;td colspan=3 valign=top nowrap>&lt;fieldset>&lt;legend> '||a_rec.main_category ||':'||'&lt;/legend>&lt;/td>');<br>
    ELSE<br>
        htp.p('&lt;td colspan=3 valign=top nowrap>&lt;fieldset>&lt;legend> Not categorized:'||'&lt;/legend>&lt;/td>');<br>
    END IF;<br>
<br>
    htp.p('&lt;/table>');<br>
end loop;<br>
</div>
It's going to produce HTML of this form:
<div style="margin: 20px; font-size: 90%; font-family: courier;">
&lt;table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 nowrap><br>
    &lt;td colspan=3 valign=top nowrap>&lt;fieldset>&lt;legend>a_rec.main_category: DATA&lt;/legend>&lt;/td><br>
&lt;/table><br>
&lt;table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 nowrap><br>
    &lt;td colspan=3 valign=top nowrap>&lt;fieldset>&lt;legend>a_rec.main_category: DATA2&lt;/legend>&lt;/td><br>
&lt;/table><br>
&lt;table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 nowrap><br>
    &lt;td colspan=3 valign=top nowrap>&lt;fieldset>&lt;legend>Not categorized: DATA3&lt;/legend>&lt;/td><br>
&lt;/table><br>
</div>
...and so on. This will create a bunch of single-celled tables with the main_catagory field of a_rec as the "legend" of the cell and the contents of the record in the cell.<br>
<br>
You're right, that's probably not what you're looking for.<br>
<br>
Which leads me to ask, what are you looking for? You've asked how to use a construct in HTML, to which my normal reply is "stfw; that is, Google for it." As with all sorts of web technologies, there is a fine reference available on the W3C's website.<br>
<br>
As for why I can't easily answer your question: The fact is that Oracle only lets us users do a very little bit of HTML in these forum replies, and it's way too much effort to emulate the behavior you're looking for with CSS1 embedded in the few HTML tags we're allowed to have.