Why do I need div table in my layout? - yii - php

Question

I'm running into a strange scenario involving a widget and the lay-out. I've created a layout that overrides the original column 2 lay-out. It calls a widget in the file and in that widget display a table on the side-bar of some information that I would like to show the user. The layout sidetable.php looks like this
<?php $this->beginContent('//layouts/main'); ?>
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span3">
<?php
$this->widget('ListSummaryWidget', array('totaldue'=>$totaldue));
?>
<table class="table">
</table>
</div><!-- sidebar span3 -->
<div class="span9">
<div class="main">
<?php echo $content; ?>
</div><!-- content -->
</div>
</div>
<?php $this->endContent(); ?>
Now all this works - displaying a datatable on the left hand column of the screen. However, something strange happens. Whenever I git rid of
<table class="table">
</table>
The whole view breaks - showing a ridiculous structure/layout that doesn't look much at all like the original. This is confusing/intriguing. In my widget I declare the exact same table and yet it does not seem to matter that I declare this table. Here is the code for my widget's view
<table class="table list_summary table-bordered">
<form action="<?php echo Yii::app()->createUrl('recipient/processpayment', array('id'=>$id)) ?>" method="post" >
<tr class="primary"><td> <h4>List Summary </h4> </td></tr>
<tr ><td>
<?php echo $numpeople; ?> Recipient(s)
</td></tr>
<tr ><td>
Total Due: <?php echo $totaldue ?> Rwf
</td></tr>
<tr> <td>
<h4> Mobile Money Accounts: </h4>
<?php
/*
foreach($accounts as $account)
{
echo $account->name; ?>: <?php echo $account->balance; ?> Rwf<br> <?php
}
*/
?>
</td> </tr>
<tr> <td>
<button class="btn btn-block btn-primary " type="submit">Pay Now</button> </td> </tr>
</td></tr>
</form>
Could anyone explain why this is happening? Though it's not the worst thing in the world - I'm really intrigued as to why I'm required to have some html when I have the same html in the widget's view.

Answer 1

Resolved:
I didn't end the table in my widget. I should have added at the end
</table>