Horizontal table layout using CSS

Question

Instead of the usual vertical table data layout something like this:

I'd like to display it like this in css:

Any ideas?

My php/html code:

<div class="center_div">
<table>
<tr>
<th>Author</th>
<th>Quotes</th>
<th>Arabic</th>
<th>Reference</th>
</tr>
    <?php while ($row= mysql_fetch_array($result)) { ?>
        <tr>
            <td width="150"><?php h($row['vAuthor']) ?></td>
            <td><?php h($row['cQuotes']) ?></td>
            <td><?php h($row['cArabic']) ?></td>
            <td><?php h($row['vReference']) ?></td>
        </tr>
    <?php } ?>
</table>
</div></div>

Answer 1

You can do this and it'll still be semantic:

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Header</th>
    <td>content</td>
    <td>content</td>
    <td>content</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Answer 2

Example from w3schools:

table {
  width: 100%
}
table,
th,
td {
  border: 1px solid black;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}
th,
td {
  padding: 5px;
  text-align: left;
}

<h2>Horizontal Headings:</h2>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Name</th>
    <th>Telephone</th>
    <th>Telephone</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Bill Gates</td>
    <td>555 77 854</td>
    <td>555 77 855</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<h2>Vertical Headings:</h2>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Name:</th>
    <td>Bill Gates</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>Telephone:</th>
    <td>555 77 854</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>Telephone:</th>
    <td>555 77 855</td>
  </tr>
</table>