Both the gray background row and the white background row below are two separate tables. The white background table is the 'overflow-y' property set to scrollable is the number of elements within it exceeds 100px.
CSS for tables:
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
width: 100%;
}
HTML for gray table:
<div style="padding-bottom: 2px">
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Start Time</th>
<th>End Time</th>
<th>User1</th>
<th>User2</th>
<th></th>
</tr>
</thead>
</table>
</div>
CSS for gray table:
th {
background-color: #E0E0E0;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 8px 0px 8px 0px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: bottom;
width: 20%;
}
HTML for white table:
<div style="height:95%;overflow:auto">
<table id="modalTable" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%" >
<tbody>
<tr ng-repeat-start="value in MaintenanceModeEvents" class="event">
<td>{{'Start Time: MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss'}}</td>
<td>{{'End Time: MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss'}}</td>
<td>{{'User 1'}}</td>
<td>{{'User 2'}}</td>
<td><button type="button"</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
CSS for white table:
tr.event {
border-top: 1px solid #808080;
/*border-bottom: 1px solid #808080;*/
font-size: 14px;
padding: 8px 16px;
text-align: left;
}
The header of the gray background table is evenly spaced at 20% (there is a th with nothing in it above view comments) when the white background table's contents doesn't exceed 100px. The issue that I am running into is when the white background table's contents exceeds 100px, the scroll bar's width takes up space in the white background table and the headers from the gray background table no longer align with the white background table as seen above. How can I handle this issue? Any help would be great!
I have a div with table inside. Div should be scrollable in case if table gets large.
I try to make something like an active row in a table. If user clicks on a row, the row gets outlined.
The problem is that for the first row of the table the top edge of outline is not shown, and for the other rows the left edge of the outline is not shown.
Why does this happen and how to overcome it?
$('tr').click(function(){
$('tr').removeClass('row-outline');
$(this).addClass('row-outline');
});
.row-outline{
outline: 1px solid red;
}
table {
border: 1px solid #dfdfdf;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
td {
border-bottom: 1px solid #dfdfdf;
border-right: 1px solid #dfdfdf;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div style="overflow: auto; height: 50px;">
<table style="">
<tr class="row-outline">
<td>1.1</td><td>1.2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2.1</td><td>2.2</td>
</tr>
<tr >
<td>3.1</td><td>3.2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Instead of outline try border. Check below update.
$('tr').click(function() {
$('tr').removeClass('row-outline');
$(this).addClass('row-outline');
});
.row-outline {
border: 1px solid red;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div style="overflow: auto; height: 50px;">
<table style="border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: collapse;">
<tr class="row-outline">
<td>1.1</td>
<td>1.2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2.1</td>
<td>2.2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3.1</td>
<td>3.2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
The problem lies withing border-collapse
if you remove this tag the "row" gets its border properly but on the other hand the "table" border is still displayed at top and bottom so this might not be a very confincing solution
if you on the other hand simulate the table with divs you could deal with it more easily i guess:
Read more about it here:
How create table only using <div> tag and Css
Hello all I'm just trying to have my border around my table cell right around the text...not stretched the length of the entire table. Its the section with the border around it
CSS:
table.content_table {
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.content_table > tbody > tr > td.results {
border: 2px solid;
background-color: #eeeecc;
font-size: 8pt;
font-weight: bold;
PADDING: 0px;
}
HTML:
<table class="content_table">
<br/><br/>
<h1>Planned Vs Actual Productions Drilldown</h1>
<tr>
<td class="results">
Number of results returned: ${fn:length(beans)}
</td>
</tr>
give the text a simple span or any other block element like div p ... span with inline-block is also a block element which can have a border.
table.content_table {
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
.border {
border: 2px solid;
background-color: #eeeecc;
font-size: 8pt;
font-weight: bold;
PADDING: 0px;
display: inline-block;
}
Any Element inside a table needs to be in TD so that is is valid html... put another tr > td into your table like this
<table class="content_table">
<tr>
<td>
<h1>Planned Vs Actual Productions Drilldown</h1>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="results">
<span class="border">Number of results returned: ${fn:length(beans)}</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
The answer lies in the fact that you have table width as 100%. Without any of styling at the TD level, the TD is automatically going to take the most width it can.
The bigger question though, is why you are using a table at all. This is a single column of data, no need for a table here, just use div's.
I had a similar problem with a WordPress theme. The "collapse" wasn't entirely working on the first column, because my theme's style.css "reset" had set the table width to 100%. At least for me, the "auto" width solved the problem.
<style>
table#donations { border-collapse: collapse; width:auto; }
</style>
<table id="donations">
<tr><td>Bitcoin BTC</td><td>1Prh5VnUJRQV3sARhEfQAMKv9UzGqgAMXg</td></tr>
</table>
So I have this code here:
<table>
<tr>
<td width="200px" valign="top">
<div class="left_menu">
<div class="menu_item">
Home
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td width="1000px" valign="top">Content</td>
</tr>
</table>
with the CSS
.left_menu {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #333333;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 5px;
}
.menu_item {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #CCCCCC;
border-bottom: 1px solid #999999;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
border-top: 1px solid #FFFFCC;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 5px;
}
It works fine on my browser and I have tested it in every browser both mac and PC, but someone is complaining that the td with the width of 200 keeps changing width. I have no idea what he is talking about. Does anyone know why he or she is seeing the width change on the td?
It should be:
<td width="200">
or
<td style="width: 200px">
Note that if your cell contains some content that doesn't fit into the 200px (like somelongwordwithoutanyspaces), the cell will stretch nevertheless, unless your CSS contains table-layout: fixed for the table.
EDIT
As kristina childs noted on her answer, you should avoid both the width attribute and using inline CSS (with the style attribute). It's a good practice to separate style and structure as much as possible.
<table style="table-layout:fixed;">
This will force the styled width <td>. If the text overfills it, it will overlap the other <td> text. So try using media queries.
Width and/or height in tables are not standard anymore; as Ianzz says, they are deprecated. Instead the best way to do this is to have a block element inside your table cell that will hold the cell open to your desired size:
<table>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<div class="left_menu">
<div class="menu_item">
Home
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" class="content">Content</td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS
.content {
width: 1000px;
}
.left_menu {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #333333;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 5px;
width: 200px;
}
.menu_item {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #CCCCCC;
border-bottom: 1px solid #999999;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
border-top: 1px solid #FFFFCC;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 5px;
}
This problem is quite easily solved using min-width and max-width within a css rule.
HTML
<table>
<tr>
<td class="name">Peter</td>
<td class="hobby">Photography</td>
<td class="comment">A long comment about something...</td>
</td>
</table>
CSS
.name {
max-width: 80px;
min-width: 80px;
}
This will force the first column to be 80px wide. Usually I only use max-width without min-width to reign in text that is very occasionally too long from creating a table that has a super wide column that is mostly empty. The OP's question was about setting to a fixed width though, hence both rules together. On many browsers width:80px; in CSS is ignored for table columns. Setting the width within the HTML does work, but is not the way you should do things.
I would recommend using min and max width rules, and not set them the same but rather set a range. This way the table can do it's thing, but you can give it some hints on what to do with overly long content.
If I want to keep the text from wrapping and increasing the height of a row - but still make it possible for a user to see the full text, I use white-space: nowrap; on the main rule, then apply a hover rule that removes the width and nowrap rules so that the user can see the full content when they over their mouse over it.
Something like this:
CSS
.name {
max-width: 80px;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}
.name:hover {
max-width: none;
white-space: normal;
overflow:auto;
}
It just depends on exactly what you are trying to achieve. I hope this helps someone.
PS As an aside, for iOS there is a fix for hover not working - see CSS Hover Not Working on iOS Safari and Chrome
You can't specify units in width/height attributes of a table; these are always in pixels, but you should not use them at all since they are deprecated.
You can try the "table-layout: fixed;" to your table
table-layout: fixed;
width: 150px;
150px or your desired width.
Reference:
https://css-tricks.com/fixing-tables-long-strings/
You can use within <td> tag css : display:inline-block
Like: <td style="display:inline-block">
try this:
word-break: break-all;
try to use
word-wrap: break-word;
hope this help
I use
<td nowrap="nowrap">
to prevent wrap
Reference: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_td_nowrap.asp
Note that adjusting the width of a column in the thead will affect the whole table
<table>
<thead>
<tr width="25">
<th>Name</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td>
<td>joe#email.com</td>
</tr>
</table>
In my case, the width on the thead > tr was overriding the width on table > tr > td directly.
I tried with many solutions but it didn't work for me so I tried flex with the table and it worked fine for me with all table functionalities like border-collapse and so on only change is display property
This was my HTML requirement
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>1</th>
<th colspan="3">2</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td colspan="3">2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td colspan="2">3</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
My CSS
table{
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
table tr{
display: flex;
width: 100%;
}
table > thead > tr > th:first-child{
width: 20%;
}
table > thead > tr > th:last-child{
width: 80%;
}
table > tbody tr > td:first-child{
width: 10%;
}
table > tbody tr > td{
width: 30%;
}
table > tbody tr > td[colspan="2"]{
width: 60%;
}
table > tbody tr > td[colspan="3"]{
width: 90%;
}
/*This is to remove border making 1px space on right*/
table > tbody tr > td:last-child{
border-right: 0;
}
If you don't set the table to have table-layout: fixed and a certain width, then the table cells will stretch beyond their own width if content is wider. That's what he/she was complaining about.
Use
<table style="table-layout:fixed;">
It will force table to set to 100% width.Then use this code
$('#dataTable').dataTable( {
bAutoWidth: false,
aoColumns : [
{ sWidth: '45%' },
{ sWidth: '45%' },
{ sWidth: '10%' },
]
});
(table id is dataTable and having 3 column)
to specify length to each cell
I want to use css to change the property of the <tr> contents, like give it a red border. However doing the below code doesnt work on <tr>, but works on <td>. Did something go wrong?
CSS:
#leaderboard tr {
border: 1px red solid;
}
.leaderboard {
border: 1px red solid;
}
HTML:
<table id="leaderboard">
<tr class="leaderboard"><td>Hello</td></tr>
<tr class="leaderboard"><td>There!</td></tr>
</table>
Imho you can't give the tr border properties because only the individual cells have borders (in IE).
So the most simple solution would be to give the table left and right border and the cells top and bottom ones.
#leaderboard {
border: 1px red solid;
}
#leaderboard td {
border-top: 1px red solid;
border-bottom: 1px red solid;
}
Works fine in Chrome and Firefox. Are you using a modern, standards-compliant browser?
This works in IE8, FF5.
<style type="text/css">
.td{
border:1px solid red;
border-top:0;
height:28px;
}
</style>
<table width="300px" style="border-top:1px solid red;border-right:1px solid red;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="td" style="width:50px;">head1</td>
<td class="td" style="width:50px;">head2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="td">cell1</td>
<td class="td">cell2</td>
</tr>
</table>
To my understanding, TR doesn't take up layout space the way other elements might. You'd be well advised to trade your tables/tr/td structure with nested, classed DIVs, like so:
<div id='leaderboard'>
<div class='leaderboard'>Hello</div>
<div class='leaderboard'>There</div>
</div>
There's nothing that you can do with tables that you can't do with divs, but conversely there's a lot divs CAN do that tables can't.