Split up cfquery results

Question

Hello. I am querying my database and usually the resultset
contains about 100 records. I want to split up my results
dynamically into three columns instead of just listing them out
like I currently do. I am not sure how to do this. This is pretty
generic but is the format I'm currently using...
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<!--- Get and return related waters --->
<cfquery name="query" datasource="myds">
SELECT id FROM my_db WHERE state = '#state#'
</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="query">
#id#<br>
</cfoutput>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I want to have it so when the result row is 40, create a new
column and display the next 40 results, and so on.
Can someone please help?
Thanks!

Answer 1

do something like:
<!--- Get and return related waters --->
<cfquery name="query" datasource="myds">
SELECT id FROM my_db WHERE state = '#state#'
</cfquery>
<cfset maxRow = 40> <!--- set the maximum row of
table to be displayed --->
<!--- Get the number of columns(noOfCol) to accomodate all
data --->
<cfset noOfCol = query.recordcount\maxRow>
<cfif query.recordcount Mod maxRow neq 0>
<cfset noOfCol = noOfCol + 1>
</cfif>
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
border="1">
<cfloop from="1" to="#maxRow#" index="nRow">
<cfset nDataRow = nRow> <!--- initialize to current
row --->
<tr>
<cfloop from="1" to="#noOfCol#" index="i">
<td><cfoutput>#query.id[nDataRow]#</cfoutput></td>
<cfset nDataRow = nDataRow + maxRow>
</cfloop>
</tr>
</cfloop>
</table>