title: MySQL 5 - Insert inline HTML content into SQL Column Failing using UPDATE
body: <p>Using a MySQL 5 database, I am trying to manually update a field in the database with inline HTML as such:</p>
  
  <pre><code>UPDATE employee SET bio =  "&lt;div style="text-align:center"&gt; &lt;H2&gt;Employment History&lt;/H2&gt; &lt;table class='table' style="width:auto;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Year&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Company&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2013-14&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;IBM&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2015-16&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Microsoft&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2016-17&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Google&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;H2&gt;BIO&lt;/H2&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Smith started out as developer and became project manager.&lt;/p&gt;" where ID = 100;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(by the way, this is not one line - its gets wrapped into multiple lines when I copy / pasted it inside the MySQL Shell)</p>
  
  <p>Results in the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'margin-left:auto' at line 1
  ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'margin-right:auto' at line 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I possibly doing wrong? Is there a way to just do this change using an HTML file inside an UPDATE or ALTER SQL statement?</p>