I am trying to use a table where I will define fixed width columns. Each column width is pre-defined and applied to a 'th' element in the table header via:
ng-style='{"width":get_width[i]+"px"}', where the get_width function returns a number.
This works just fine as long as the text does not exceed the column width specified. If it does, the width changes to accommodate the entire text.
Question, how can I use CSS to force the column width to my specification? The text may be truncated if longer.
Thx in advance.
You can truncate text using css: FIDDLE
CSS
.div1 {
white-space:nowrap;
width:12em;
overflow:hidden;
text-overflow:ellipsis;
border:1px solid #000000;
}
HTML
<p>This div uses "text-overflow:ellipsis":</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td><div class="div1">This is some long text that will not fit in the box.</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
If you can, set the width of the table as a whole by styling the <table> element. Evidently a lot of implementations of CSS expand the columns to fit text until they bump up against the maximum width of the table.
Source
you need to set table layout fixed and set overflow hidden for cells and you have to use
<table class="fixed-table">
<col width="20px" />
<col width="30px" />
<col width="40px" />
<tr>
<td>text</td>
<td>text</td>
<td>text</td>
</tr>
</table>
.fixed-table{ table-layout:fixed; word-break: break-all;}
.fixed-tabletd { overflow: hidden; }
Related
A lot of people still use tables to layout controls, data etc. - one example of this is the popular jqGrid. However, there is some magic happening that I cant seem to fathom (its tables for crying out loud, how much magic could there possibly be?)
How is it possible to set a table's column width and have it obeyed like jqGrid does!? If I try to replicate this, even if I set every <td style='width: 20px'>, as soon as the content of one of those cells is greater than 20px, the cell expands!
Any ideas or insights?
You could try using the <col> tag manage table styling for all rows but you will need to set the table-layout:fixed style on the <table> or the tables css class and set the overflow style for the cells
http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_col.asp
<table class="fixed">
<col width="20px" />
<col width="30px" />
<col width="40px" />
<tr>
<td>text</td>
<td>text</td>
<td>text</td>
</tr>
</table>
and this be your CSS
table.fixed { table-layout:fixed; }
table.fixed td { overflow: hidden; }
Now in HTML5/CSS3 we have better solution for the problem. In my opinion this purely CSS solution is recommended:
table.fixed {table-layout:fixed; width:90px;}/*Setting the table width is important!*/
table.fixed td {overflow:hidden;}/*Hide text outside the cell.*/
table.fixed td:nth-of-type(1) {width:20px;}/*Setting the width of column 1.*/
table.fixed td:nth-of-type(2) {width:30px;}/*Setting the width of column 2.*/
table.fixed td:nth-of-type(3) {width:40px;}/*Setting the width of column 3.*/
<table class="fixed">
<tr>
<td>Veryverylongtext</td>
<td>Actuallythistextismuchlongeeeeeer</td>
<td>We should use spaces tooooooooooooo</td>
</tr>
</table>
You need to set the table's width even in haunter's solution. Otherwise it doesn't work.
Also a new CSS3 feature that vsync suggested is: word-break:break-all;. This will break the words without spaces in them to multiple lines too. Just modify the code like this:
table.fixed { table-layout:fixed; width:90px; word-break:break-all;}
Final result
table td
{
table-layout:fixed;
width:20px;
overflow:hidden;
word-wrap:break-word;
}
I had one long table td cell, this forced the table to the edges of the browser and looked ugly. I just wanted that column to be fixed size only and break the words when it reaches the specified width.
So this worked well for me:
<td><div style='width: 150px;'>Text to break here</div></td>
You don't need to specify any kind of style to table, tr elements.
You may also use overflow:hidden; as suggested by other answers but it causes for the excess text to disappear.
for FULLSCREEN width table:
table width MUST be 100%
if need N colunms, then THs MUST be N+1
example for 3 columns:
table.fixed {
table-layout: fixed;
width: 100%;
}
table.fixed td {
overflow: hidden;
}
<table class="fixed">
<col width=20 />
<col width=20 />
<col width=20 />
<tr>
<th>1</th>
<th>2</th>
<th>3</th>
<th>FREE</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>text111111111</td>
<td>text222222222</td>
<td>text3333333</td>
</tr>
</table>
table {
table-layout:fixed; width:200px;
}
table tr {
height: 20px;
}
10x10
table
{
table-layout:fixed;
}
td,th
{
width:20px;
word-wrap:break-word;
}
:first-child ... :nth-child(1) or ...
I have a table and I've set the <td> tag width = 60px
but if I put a string, its width increases!
How can I make it absolutely fix? While if this will be little for a string only its height increases, not its width.
I want to have no width change in my table and put several tables under each
other as seems they are just one table.
<td style=" width="50px">
What shall I do to have a table with this property?
Use <col> tag and set the table-layout:fixed style on the <table>
<table class="tableFixedCell">
<col width="50px" />
<tr>
<td>content here</td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS
table.tableFixedCell {
table-layout:fixed;
}
table.tableFixedCell td {
overflow: hidden;
}
I have this code :
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:415px">
<tbody>
<tr valign="top">
<td style="font-family:Arial;min-height:60px;font-size:12px;line-height:14px;">
This is my text that I need in 2 lines
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td style="font-size:12px;line-height:14px">
Second Line
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
As you can see, the first tr/td should be height 60px (min-height:60px) but in fact it isn't.
For many reasons, I can't use height directly (this code is formatted trought back office system, in a newsletter).
So, how can I take the whole height on the td trought min-height?
Also, tried putting min-height:60px; on tr, but nothing change...
min-height doesn't work for table elements:
In CSS 2.1, the effect of 'min-width' and 'max-width' on tables, inline tables, table cells, table columns, and column groups is undefined.
I can only assume this applies to td and tr as well.
What should always work is wrapping the content in a div, and applying min-height to that, as shown in this JSFiddle:
<td style="font-family:Arial;min-height:60px;font-size:12px;line-height:14px;">
<div style="min-height: 60px; background-color: green">
This is my text that I need in 2 lines
</div>
</td>
Edit: You say this doesn't work with Outlook.
Alternative idea: Place a 60 px tall image in the td, and make it float: left:
<td>
<img src="..." style="float: left">
</td>
Use <td height="60"> not CSS height or min-height
For HTML email set your table cell as <td height="60"> and it will treat that as the min-height. If your content is more than 60px, it will expand accordingly.
Put a DIV in the cell, style the DIV instead.
Min-height doesn't works on tables.
It is sometimes useful to constrain the height of elements to a certain range. Two properties offer this functionality: min-height & max-height
But these can't be used on non-replaced inline elements, table columns, and column groups.
You can't set min-height and min-width, but you can use some CSS3 for achievements this same effect.
.default-table table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
.default-table table td {
padding: 0;
}
.default-table tr:before {
width: 0px;
content: '';
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
height: 28px;
font-size: 0;
}
.default-table {
overflow: hidden;
}
<div class="default-table">
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Steve</td>
<td>Smith</td>
<td>stevesmith#gmail.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jone</td>
<td>Polanski</td>
<td>jonep#gmail.com</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
but if u having collapse or padding in td. You must give for .default-table table minus margin-left.
HTML :
<table></table>
CSS :
table{
height:0px; /*Set any facultative length value to Height (percentage value doesn't work)*/
min-height:100vh;
}
That's how I always resolve this problem ...
Add display block
<td style="font-family:Arial;min-height:60px;font-size:12px;line-height:14px;display:block;">
Here's a solution that works in Outlook (tested) and other e-mail clients:
<td style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;line-height:300px;"> </td>
This is cleaner than using an image, which could negatively affect your spam score, and does the exact same thing.
If you have other content in the <td> that you don't want to have that line height, you can just wrap the non-breaking space in a <span> and set the line-height on that tag:
<td><span style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;line-height:300px"> </span>**Other content without 300px line-height here**</td>
The reason height or min-height works on <div> tags and not <td> is because <td> are set to display:table-cell and do not respect height the same way that display:block (<div>) elements do.
I have resolved this issue by adding display:block; to its style as
<td style="display:block; min-height:200px;">
min-height does not work in td, Set height that will work like min-height and automatic increase height if needed. That is worked for me
Here is a solution that does not depend on the height in pixels. It works in all email clients:
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:415px">
<tbody>
<tr valign="top">
<td style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;line-height:14px;">
This is my text that I need in 2 lines
</td>
<td style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;line-height:14px;">
<br/><br/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td style="font-size:12px;line-height:14px">
Second Line
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
The solution works by adding a zero-width column with two lines to the right of the first one. It uses the character, which is a non-breaking zero-width space.
It may be reviving a 2012 post, for those who searched and found this post like me:
Note: Check these addresses for the email client support before using this method, at the time of writing this answer, the support was around 50% -ish.
E-mail client support range of :first-child
E-mail client support range of ::before
table tr:first-child td:before {
min-height: 100px;
display: block;
content: ""
}
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
What I found !!!, In tables CSS td{height:60px;} works same as CSS td{height:60px;}
A lot of people still use tables to layout controls, data etc. - one example of this is the popular jqGrid. However, there is some magic happening that I cant seem to fathom (its tables for crying out loud, how much magic could there possibly be?)
How is it possible to set a table's column width and have it obeyed like jqGrid does!? If I try to replicate this, even if I set every <td style='width: 20px'>, as soon as the content of one of those cells is greater than 20px, the cell expands!
Any ideas or insights?
You could try using the <col> tag manage table styling for all rows but you will need to set the table-layout:fixed style on the <table> or the tables css class and set the overflow style for the cells
http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_col.asp
<table class="fixed">
<col width="20px" />
<col width="30px" />
<col width="40px" />
<tr>
<td>text</td>
<td>text</td>
<td>text</td>
</tr>
</table>
and this be your CSS
table.fixed { table-layout:fixed; }
table.fixed td { overflow: hidden; }
Now in HTML5/CSS3 we have better solution for the problem. In my opinion this purely CSS solution is recommended:
table.fixed {table-layout:fixed; width:90px;}/*Setting the table width is important!*/
table.fixed td {overflow:hidden;}/*Hide text outside the cell.*/
table.fixed td:nth-of-type(1) {width:20px;}/*Setting the width of column 1.*/
table.fixed td:nth-of-type(2) {width:30px;}/*Setting the width of column 2.*/
table.fixed td:nth-of-type(3) {width:40px;}/*Setting the width of column 3.*/
<table class="fixed">
<tr>
<td>Veryverylongtext</td>
<td>Actuallythistextismuchlongeeeeeer</td>
<td>We should use spaces tooooooooooooo</td>
</tr>
</table>
You need to set the table's width even in haunter's solution. Otherwise it doesn't work.
Also a new CSS3 feature that vsync suggested is: word-break:break-all;. This will break the words without spaces in them to multiple lines too. Just modify the code like this:
table.fixed { table-layout:fixed; width:90px; word-break:break-all;}
Final result
table td
{
table-layout:fixed;
width:20px;
overflow:hidden;
word-wrap:break-word;
}
I had one long table td cell, this forced the table to the edges of the browser and looked ugly. I just wanted that column to be fixed size only and break the words when it reaches the specified width.
So this worked well for me:
<td><div style='width: 150px;'>Text to break here</div></td>
You don't need to specify any kind of style to table, tr elements.
You may also use overflow:hidden; as suggested by other answers but it causes for the excess text to disappear.
for FULLSCREEN width table:
table width MUST be 100%
if need N colunms, then THs MUST be N+1
example for 3 columns:
table.fixed {
table-layout: fixed;
width: 100%;
}
table.fixed td {
overflow: hidden;
}
<table class="fixed">
<col width=20 />
<col width=20 />
<col width=20 />
<tr>
<th>1</th>
<th>2</th>
<th>3</th>
<th>FREE</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>text111111111</td>
<td>text222222222</td>
<td>text3333333</td>
</tr>
</table>
table {
table-layout:fixed; width:200px;
}
table tr {
height: 20px;
}
10x10
table
{
table-layout:fixed;
}
td,th
{
width:20px;
word-wrap:break-word;
}
:first-child ... :nth-child(1) or ...
I have code like this:
<table width="625px">
<tr style="background-color:#CCC; font-size:14px;">
<td style="padding:8px; color:#333"><center><?=stripslashes($arr['signature']);?> </center></td>
</tr>
If $arr['signature'] is a long string, like this gjuytfdcrtrfdscvythgfvtfdgtrfdvbgfvcfgbdc the width doesn't help and it goes very wide. How can I prevent that?
there are many ways, depends on what you wish to do.
If you apply overflow:hidden then the overflown text would be hidden. You can use overflow:scroll; inside a div like <td style="padding:8px; color:#333"><center><div style="overflow:scroll; width:625px;"><?=stripslashes($arr['signature']);?></div> </center></td>
This will create a scroll for the overflow text, only for this cell (there is need to give width for this method).
Here an example for the overflow:scroll;
Try:
<td style="width: 160px; max-width: 160px;">
or
<td style="width: 160px; overflow-x: hidden;">
or both together.
See
http://www.highdots.com/forums/html/limit-width-table-cell-271764.html
Use the overflow property:
<table width="625px" style="overfow: hidden;">
use the overflow style property on the "td" tag
<td style="overflow-x: hidden;">your text here</td>
See the section on table widths in the CSS2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html#width-layout
Roughly, tables will choose the maximum of the specified width and the sum of the widths of their columns. You have to constrain the width of the column, perhaps by setting a width on the element (you'll want to choose your overflow style here as well).
Example:
<table width="625px">
<tr style="background-color:#CCC; font-size:14px;">
<td style="padding:8px; color:#333; width: 625px; overflow: hidden; text-align:center"><?=stripslashes($arr['signature']);?></td>
</tr>
</table>
(Also note that <center> has been long deprecated; please use the text-align CSS property.)
I remember spending hours on that. Use the table-layout:fixed style.
<table style="width:625px;table-layout:fixed;overflow:hidden">
Each column will take the size of its first cell.