I am trying to setup a table column width to only 200px or 10%. However, when I populate the data from the database, the column seems to ignore the column width and expand it as much as it can. Here is my table html.

```
<table>
<thead>
    <tr>
        <th><a href='#'>City</a></th>   
        <th width='200' class='table_width'><a href='#'>name</a></th> 
        <th><a href='#'>Agent</a></th>
        <th>... 
    //I have tried class and width attribute. both don't work. 
    </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
        <tr>
            //these column data were popluated from database
            <td><?= $row->city; ?></td>
            <td width='200' class='table_width'><?= $row->_name; ?></td>  
            //ignore the width and expand the table cell. 
            <td><?= $row->agent; ?></td> 
            <td>...

        </tr>

```