Vertical scroll bar to one column of each row of the table - html

I have a table in a html5. One of the columns is a description column. And since I am using bootstrap class "col-md-2". The description being long goes a lot down. I want to enable a vertical scroll for that particular <td>. I have tried using style="overflow-y: auto;" with td. But, it doesn't seem to work.
HTML File :
<div class="panel-body">
<table ng-if="applicationListAdmin" st-table="applicationTable" class="table table-striped">
<tr>
<th>Application No.</th>
<th>Project Title</th>
<th>Project Description</th>
<!-- <th>DataSet Available</th> -->
<!-- <th>Impact</th> -->
<th>Number of Interns</th>
<th>Expected SkillSet</th>
<th>Software Licenses Needed</th>
<th>Hardware Requirements</th>
<th>Status</th>
<th>Update</th>
</tr>
<tbody>
<tr ng-repeat="application in applicationListAdmin">
<td class="col-md-2">{{application.number}}</td>
<td class="col-md-2">{{application.title}}</td>
<td class="col-md-2" style="overflow-y: auto;">{{application.description}}</td>
<td class="col-md-1">{{application.numberOfInterns}}</td>
<td class="col-md-2">{{application.skillSet}}</td>
<td class="col-md-2">{{application.software}}</td>
<td class="col-md-2">{{application.hardware}}</td>
<td class="col-md-2">{{application.state}}</td>
<td>
<i class="material-icons" ng-click="view(application._id)">receipt</i>
<i class="material-icons" ng-click='edit(application._id)' style="color:red">edit</i>
<i class="material-icons" ng-click="remove(application._id)" style="color:red">delete</i>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Css values for table:
th,td {
/*border-style: solid;
border-width: 5px;
border-color: #BCBCBC;*/
word-wrap: break-word;
}
table {
table-layout: fixed;
width: 100%;
}

You can't set the height to the table td. but what you can do is put the contents inside a div and place that div inside the td
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
table, th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
}
div{
overflow-y:scroll;
height:100px !important;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td >
March
</td>
<td >
<div>
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</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

For scroll to appear, you need to set the height on the element.
Try:
<td class="col-md-2" style="overflow-y: auto;height: 100px;display:block;">random text</td>
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/lotusgodkk/GCu2D/2165/

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Scrollbar ONLY in one TD cell in a table?

I'm creating a new layout for my site and I'm starting with tables. Currently I've got a fairly simple code for my tables and you can see it here: (http://www.thelanternlight.com/misc/new01.html)
I'm trying to have NO scrollbars on the entire page but rather ONLY a vertical scrollbar in ONLY the teal cell you see on that page (the one with lowright written in it). That is where my content will be.
The main issue I'm facing is that I don't want to provide dimensions for my table or its cells because I want to use 100% for width and height so that it covers the entire page no matter what browser settings the user has. If at all possible I just want to add an overflow scrollbar to that teal TD cell alone.
I'll also provide the code I have currently:
<table style="width:100%" height="100%" bgcolor="pink" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 class="alignment">
<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="red" colspan="2" height="150">topleft</td>
<td align="right" bgcolor="yellow">topright</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="magenta" width="100">lowleft</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="blueviolet" width="100">lowcenter</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="teal">
<div style="overflow-y:scroll; overflow-y:auto; width:100%">lowright
<p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Give that cell a height or it will keep growing as content is added never triggering the scroll:
<table style="width:100%" height="100%" bgcolor="pink" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 class="alignment">
<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="red" colspan="2" height="150">topleft</td>
<td align="right" bgcolor="yellow">topright</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="magenta" width="100">lowleft</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="blueviolet" width="100">lowcenter</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="teal"><div style="overflow-y:auto;
height: 100px; width:100%">lowright
<p>
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</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table style="width:100%" height="100%" bgcolor="pink" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 class="alignment">
<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="red" colspan="2" height="150">topleft</td>
<td align="right" bgcolor="yellow">topright</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="magenta" width="100">lowleft</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="blueviolet" width="100">lowcenter</td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="teal">
<div style="overflow-y:scroll; width:100%">lowright
<p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div style="overflow-y:scroll; width:100%">lowright
Body overflow-y: hidden;
I put the overflow-y: hidden in the body and overflow-y:scroll in the div
Try it

Row overlapping with page footer

I have a row in my HTML Table which is overlapping my div in footer while printing it in A4 page.
How to fix it so it can break before footer and continue in the next page and so on.
I've googled and found many solution like this but all of theme didn't worked for me.
Margin while printing html page
My Style
<head>
<style>
#media print {
h1 {
page-break-after: always;
}
div.divFooter {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
}
.pagebreak {
page-break-before: always;
}
table {
height: 500px;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
}
p {
white-space: pre-line;
white-space: pre-wrap;
}
#main_table,#id_table{
border: 2px solid black;
border-collapse: collapse;
table-layout: fixed;
page-break-inside: auto;
width: 100%;
text-align:center;
margin-top:-18px;
}
</style>
</head>
My view
<body dir="rtl" style="margin-left: 0.98in;margin-right:0.98in">
<div>
<br>
<div>
<table id="main_table" dir="rtl" border="1">
<tr style="font-size: 20px;font-weight:bold;height:40px">
<td style="width: 47.5%">first column</td>
<td style="width: 7%">second column</td>
<td style="width: 47.5%">third column</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-bottom: hidden;text-align:right">
<p style="text-align: right;font-size: 19px;margin-right:30px;font-weight:bold">{{$result[0]->name}}</p>
</td>
<td rowspan="2"></td>
<td rowspan="2"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top;border-top:hidden;height:60vh" dir="rtl">
<p style="font-size: 16px;margin-right:25px;margin-left:25px;text-indent: 30px;text-align:right" dir="rtl" lang="ar">{{$result[0]->document_text}}</p>
<br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<div class="divFooter" style="width:80%;padding:25">
<hr style="width: 98%;border-radius: 5px;border: 3px solid"/>
<p style="margin-right:25px;margin-left:25px;font-size:14px">sdfsdfsd fasdfh klhasdkjf sakdljfh askjfdhsakdjfh askjdfh a </p>
</div>
</body>
it Show look like this while printing it in A4 page
After searching a lot I found this link
https://plnkr.co/edit/lWk6Yd?preview
Very use full
Style
/* Styles go here */
.page-header, .page-header-space {
height: 100px;
}
.page-footer, .page-footer-space {
height: 50px;
}
.page-footer {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
border-top: 1px solid black; /* for demo */
background: yellow; /* for demo */
}
.page-header {
position: fixed;
top: 0mm;
width: 100%;
border-bottom: 1px solid black; /* for demo */
background: yellow; /* for demo */
}
.page {
page-break-after: always;
}
#page {
margin: 20mm
}
#media print {
thead {display: table-header-group;}
tfoot {display: table-footer-group;}
button {display: none;}
body {margin: 0;}
}
Body
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="page-header" style="text-align: center">
I'm The Header
<br/>
<button type="button" onClick="window.print()" style="background: pink">
PRINT ME!
</button>
</div>
<div class="page-footer">
I'm The Footer
</div>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<td>
<!--place holder for the fixed-position header-->
<div class="page-header-space"></div>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<!--*** CONTENT GOES HERE ***-->
<div class="page">PAGE 1</div>
<div class="page">PAGE 2</div>
<div class="page" style="line-height: 3;">
PAGE 3 - Long Content
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Aenean suscipit fringilla vehicula. Quisque iaculis orci vitae arcu commodo maximus. Maecenas nec nunc rutrum, cursus elit quis, porttitor sapien. Sed ac hendrerit ipsum, lacinia fringilla velit. Donec ultricies feugiat dictum.
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>
<!--place holder for the fixed-position footer-->
<div class="page-footer-space"></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>
</body>
</html>

How browsers render html table cells with set width to 100%

I trying to understand how browsers render table cells with width set to 100%. How they calculate the width of cells. We have the following example
<table style="width: 100%; color: black">
<tr>
<td>
AAAA
</td>
<td>
<div style="width: 100%;height: 25px; background: red;"></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Output is weird
My question is why the first cell is that long (it contains only 4 letters of text and should end after last letter) while the second cells width should be as wide as possible.
I would expect something like that
As long as you don't set any width for the tds, the proportion between them is analog to the content. In your example, four letters in the first cell is infinite times more content than the second cell has (no text at all).
If you want to avoid that, define width settings for the tds - see the example below - once with your original code, once with added content in the first td
td {
width: 50%;
}
<table style="width: 100%; color: black">
<tr>
<td>
AAAA
</td>
<td>
<div style="width: 100%;height: 25px; background: red;"></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
td {
width: 50%;
}
<table style="width: 100%; color: black">
<tr>
<td>
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</td>
<td>
<div style="width: 100%;height: 25px; background: red;"></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Bootstrap table overflows parent

I have the following HTML
<div class="page-content container">
<div class="row">
<a class="btn btn-default btn-lg btn-block" href="#">Add Exercise</a>
</div>
<div class="row">
<table class="table table-condensed table-hover">
<caption>Exercises</caption>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Technique</th>
<th>Sub Technique</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Accents</th>
<th>Min Persons</th>
<th>Max Persons</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Lorem</td>
<td>Ipsum</td>
<td>Dolor</td>
<td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium. Integer tincidunt. Cras dapibus. Vivamus elementum semper nisi. Aenean vulputate eleifend tellus. Aenean leo ligula, porttitor eu, consequat vitae, eleifend ac, enim. Aliquam lorem ante, dapibus in, viverra quis, feugiat a, tellus. Phasellus viverra nulla ut metus varius laoreet. Quisque rutrum. Aenean imperdiet. Etiam ultricies nisi vel augue. Curabitur ullamcorper ultricies nisi. Nam eget dui.</td>
<td>sit</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
The problem i'm having is that the table overflows the .row parent. I've tried several thing, searched on google and found some answers but no solutions (at least not for me).
I tried this but then all columns are equal width and I don't want that.
Tried this, this and this but nothing does the trick for me.
I've made a fiddle so you can see what I mean. What I want is to fit all the content inside the .container with the red border.
EDIT:
Problem appears to be only occuring in chrome.
Expected Output:
By default table-layout is set to auto. You need to set it to fixed so that it can take the width:
table{
table-layout: fixed;
}
solved fiddle
Using table-layout:fixed will make the columns equals of equal width and wont break your max-width:100% by overflowing.
But given the fact that you have a 'long-content column', you might give that column a class name and set a max-width value for that class.

Need Help Figuring Out Why Text Is Overflowing My Page

Like the title says, I am having issues with a VERY long string overflowing my page. I tried some overflow techniques, but none seem to work.
I had previously posted this as a Primefaces problem, but have since learned that it is not a Primefaces issue. Anyway, if anybody has any suggestions on how I can fix this, I would appreciate it. I will post my HTML below so you can see what I am talking about.
Thanks for taking the time to read, and have a great day. :-)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> overflow </title>
<style type="text/css">
#container{
width: 800px;
border: 1px solid #000;
background-color: #efefef;
}
div {
padding: 10px;
}
span.text {
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h3> overflow </h3>
<div id="container">
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>
<span>cell_X</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell_Y</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell_Z</span>
</td>
<td>
<span class="text">asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf</span>
</td>
<td>
<span> </span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span>cell_X</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell_Y</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell_Z</span>
</td>
<td>
<span class="text">asdf</span>
</td>
<td>
<span> </span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span>cell_X</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell_Y</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell_Z</span>
</td>
<td>
<span class="text">asdf</span>
</td>
<td>
<span> </span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span>cell_X</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell_Y</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell_Z</span>
</td>
<td>
<span class="text">asdf</span>
</td>
<td>
<span> </span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span>cell_X</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell_Y</span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell_Z</span>
</td>
<td>
<span class="text">asdf</span>
</td>
<td>
<span> </span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
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</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> problem </title>
<style type="text/css">
.main
{
width:960px;
margin:0 auto;
overflow: scroll;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h4> problem </h4>
<div class="main">
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>
<span>cell</span>
</td>
<td>
<span> </span>
</td>
<td>
<span>cell</span>
</td>
<td>
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</td>
<td>
<span> </span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
use the word-wrap:break word css attribute & give it an explicit width:
span .text{
word-wrap:break-word;
width:800px;
}
This property will only apply if the element has a visual rendering, is an inline element with explicit height/width, is absolutely positioned and/or is a block element.