Question

I am using the ‘SET MARKUP HTML ON’ option to output a result table from a query to html using SQLPLUS.

I want to be able to explicitly specify that some columns need to be a specific pixel width.

Is this possibly using the ‘SET MARKUP HTML OPTION’ ?? I would rather not have to just use the regular spooling option, and create the html table manually.

Edited:

I have tried something like:

SET MARKUP HTML ON SPOOL ON PREFORMAT OFF ENTMAP OFF

SPOOL file.html
column aString heading "New Heading"
column aNumber heading "<p style='width:100px'>800SetColA</p>"

SELECT 'Some long String' aString, 3 aNumber FROM dual
UNION ALL
SELECT 'Some other String' aString, 9 aNumber FROM dual;
SPOOL OFF

Which does not work!! the width style tag needs to be set on the th tag and not the p tag.

Answer 1

You can use the COLUMN ** HEADING to do this
as such:

SET PAGESIZE 50000
SET MARKUP HTML ON TABLE "class=detail cellspacing=0" ENTMAP OFF
column colA heading "<p style='width:800px'>800SetColA</p>" format a40

column colB heading "<p style='width:10px'>10SetColB</p>" format a40

spool test.html

select level cola, level-5 colb from dual connect by level <10 ;

spool off

you can also use style sheets via this approach, tht

Some helpful links:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/server.101/b12170/ch8.htm
http://gennick.com/html.html