次のようなものを試してください：
<?php
// Make a MySQL Connection
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("tegneserier") or die(mysql_error());
// Get all the data from the "årgang" table
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM årgang")
or die(mysql_error());
echo '<table id="hor-zebra" summary="Datapass">
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope="col">name</th> //Name off table in DB
<th scope="col">age</th> //Name off table in DB
<th scope="col">issue</th> //Name off table in DB
<th scope="col">Description</th> //Name off table in DB
<th scope="col">quality</th> //Name off table in DB
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>';
// keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
if( $i % 2 == 0 ) {
$class = " class='odd'";
} else {
$class = "";
}
// Print out the contents of each row into a table
echo "<tr" . $class . "><td>";
echo $row['name'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['age'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['issue'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['Description'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['quality'];
echo "</td></tr>";
}
echo "</tbody></table>";
?>
そしてあなたのHTMLファイルで：
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>DataTable Output</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
@import url("style.css");
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php include("datamodtagelse.php"); ?>
</body>
</html>