I want a HTML <table> to be just the size it needs to be.
Without specifying anything it will span the whole width. Setting width="auto" doesn't work.
Do not set width on the table at all. This will make the table only as wide as needed by its content. If this looks too wide, look at the table content to see what causes width requirements in cells. For example, if you have long text in a cell, it will expand the cell to be as wide as needed, within the available width. If you wish to limit this, you need to set width or max-width on the content of a cell, or the cell itself, or the table.
Use width: fit-content; for the table. See the difference below:
table, tr, th, td {
border: 1px solid black;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
.container {
width: 300px;
border: 1px solid red;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
table#fit-content {
width: fit-content;
}
<div class='container'>
<button>Regular</button>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<br>
<div class='container'>
<button>With Fit-Content</button>
<table id='fit-content'>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
You need to use CSS style instead of table attributes.
table
{
width:auto;
}
Related
Following code doesn't shrink the image to the row height and I don't understand why.
there are a lot of similar questions on the forum, but I can't seem to find the explanation or solution for this behaviour.
I can solve it easily enough by fixing the height of the image, but that doesn't learn me anything :)
<html>
<head>
<style>
tr { height: 3em; }
td { height: 100%; border: 1px solid green; }
img { height: 100%; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>some text</td>
<td><img src='https://www.google.be/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png' /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>other text</td>
<td><img src='https://s.yimg.com/rz/p/yahoo_frontpage_en-US_s_f_p_bestfit_frontpage_2x.png' /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
A table cell will adjust its height to fit its content, which is the expected behavior: the more content you have, the taller it gets.
Rather than forcing td's height, you might want to give max-height to your img. See the snippet below.
tr {
height: 3em;
}
td {
height: 100%;
border: 1px solid green;
}
img {
max-height: 3em;
}
<table>
<tr height="3em">
<td>some text</td>
<td>
<img src='https://www.google.be/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png' />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>other text</td>
<td>
<img src='https://s.yimg.com/rz/p/yahoo_frontpage_en-US_s_f_p_bestfit_frontpage_2x.png' />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I have a situation similar to the one represented in this fiddle,
where there is a table with
table {
width: 100%;
margin-right: 30px;
}.
inside a div.
The problem is that when I apply the margin to the table, it goes out of its parent div. How can I avoid that?
Add a padding-right on the div instead :
div {
padding-right: 30px;
}
table {
width: 100%;
}
demo
The width applies to the actual content of the element, so you have a table with 100% wide content, and on left of that you add some margins pushing the width over 100%, thus the right side of the table extends beyond the parent's right edge. Probably you should go with padding on the parent instead of margin on the table, or an additional wrapper with just the margin.
table {
width: 100%;
border:1px solid green;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
.inner{
margin-left:100px;
}
<div>
<div class="inner">
<table border="1">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>HEADER 1</th>
<th>HEADER 2</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td>12</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21</td>
<td>22</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
Here's a DEMO
Here's my HTML:
<div>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>A1</td>
<td>B1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A2</td>
<td>B2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
and CSS:
div {
position: relative;
left: 100px;
}
table {
border: 1px solid black;
}
As you can see in the demo, it causes horizontal scrollbars. Is there any way to get rid of this, other than using javascript?
instead of left maybe try
margin-left: 100px;
Is it possible to have a table with width 100% (so the table fits the screen size), where the first and the last column have a fixed width, and the columns between take the rest, both 50%.
Like:
+--------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------+
| width:300px; | with dynamic, equals next column | width dynamic, equals prevous column | width:50px;|
+--------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------+
+--------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------+
+--------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------+
+--------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------------+
Try this:
As you can see the two centre column remain equal sized, due to the table-layout:fixed, even when the content is of different length. Try adding more and less content to the two centre columns.
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/RtXSh/
CSS
table {
width:100%;
border-collapse:collapse;
table-layout:fixed;
}
td {
border: 1px solid #333;
}
HTML
<table>
<tr>
<td style="width:300px;">
test
</td>
<td>
test test tes test test
</td>
<td>
test
</td>
<td style="width:50px;">
test
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Try using the pseudo element first-child and last-child
If I'm not mistaken the other columns will align equally by themselves. You might need to use the !important statement behind the first-child and last-child widths.
table{ table-layout: fixed; width: 100%; }
td { border: 1px solid black; }
td:first-child{ width: 100px; }
td:last-child{ width: 100px; }
<table>
<tr>
<td>100px</td>
<td>some text</td>
<td>some text</td>
<td>100px</td>
</tr>
</table>
However, as nurettin pointed out, if you use a thead and tbody section you have to style the header. Styling the td:first-child and td:last-child will not work.
table{ table-layout: fixed; width: 100%; }
td { border: 1px solid black; }
th:first-child{ width: 100px; }
th:last-child{ width: 100px; }
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
<th>Column 4</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>100px</td>
<td>some text</td>
<td>some text</td>
<td>100px</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
In my opinion, the simple, nice and easy way is that don't use the px and % together. If you are using table width 100%, then define width of first and last column in % as well. If you are interested in that, here is how you can do:
CSS:
.mytable {
width:100%;
border: 1px solid green;
}
.left{
width:30%;
border-right:1px dashed blue;
}
.mid1{
width:30%;
border-right:1px dashed blue;
}
.mid2{
width:30%;
border-right:1px dashed blue;
}
.right{
width: 10%;
border-left:1px dashed blue;
}
HTML:
<table class="mytable">
<tr>
<td class="left">Left Column, 30%</td>
<td class="mid1">Mid 1, 30% </td>
<td class="mid2">Mid 2, 30% </td>
<td class="right">Right, 10%</td>
</tr>
</table>
This can be handled by adding the style table-layout:fixed to the table element, and simply not specifying any width value for the columns you wish to evenly divide the width remaining after the fixed columns have been accounted for.
Further, using combinations of <colgroup> can provide robust variable-width scenarios.
I've created an example at JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/3bgsfnuL/1/
<div style="position:relative; height:500px; width:100%;">
<table style="height:100%; width:100%; table-layout:fixed; text-align:center; border-collapse:collapse;">
<colgroup colspan="1" style="width:200px"></colgroup>
<colgroup colspan="3">
<col/>
<col style="width:30px"/>
<col/>
</colgroup>
<colgroup colspan="1" style="width:200px"></colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="background-color:silver;">left fixed</td>
<td style="border-right:1px solid black;">col 1</td>
<td style="background-color:red; color:white; border:1px solid black;">col 2</td>
<td style="border-left:1px solid black;">col 3</td>
<td style="background-color:silver;">right fixed</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
Nobody mentioned this one here <th> trick:
table{ table-layout: fixed; width: 100%; }
th:first-child{ width: 300px; }
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>yourfirst300pxcolumn</th>
<th>fixedwidth</th>
<th>fixedwidth also</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>300</td><td>something</td><td>something else</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Note that in HTML5/CSS3, you can use grid layout to have more control over your tables. It's not that useful for this specific example, with pixel widths, where you can use table-layout:fixed as in Bazzz's answer, but it is useful if you want to use something like min-content.
The following works out of the box on Chrome and Firefox, but not in Safari:
table {
width: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 300px 1fr 1fr 50px;
/* Or, more usefully: */
/* grid-template-columns: min-content 1fr 1fr min-content; */
}
td {
display: block;
}
/* ignore <tr> when laying out the grid; just lay out the cells */
tr {
display: contents;
}
/* browsers can inject <tbody> into the DOM even if it's not in the HTML */
tbody {
display: contents;
}
(Note though that the table border-collapse property doesn't work in this layout, so you may have to fiddle with CSS pseudo-classes like :last-child in order to get your borders to behave the way you want.)
In Safari this doesn't work -- the rows don't break properly. (Although it does work if you use nested <div> elements instead of a <table> and apply similar styles.) However, a simpler layout with just one dynamic 1fr column does work in Safari:
table {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 300px 1fr 50px;
}
tbody {
display: contents;
}
tr {
display: contents;
}
td {
border: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
}
What about using jQuery for this and calling javascript function once your table is created or some other event (like click) happens?
See here (I created jsfiddle playground for this)
What it does is that it checks the width of fixed elements (width of the whole table, first and last cell). Then it calculates and assigns the width for the rest of the cells which should have the remaining width divided between them (based on how many there are and how much space is left). Of course this is just quick example of possible solution. It needs polishing (checking null objects, if remaining width is greater than 0, ...)
I have a HTML table and I want the first few columns to be quite long. I am doing this in CSS:
td.longColumn
{
width: 300px;
}
and here is a simplified version of my table
<table>
<tr>
<td class='longColumn'></td>
<td class='longColumn'></td>
<td class='longColumn'></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
[ . . and a bunch more columns . . .]
</tr>
</table>
For some reason the table seems to make this column < 300px when there are a lot of columns. I basically want it to keep that width no matter what (and just increase the horizontal scroll bar).
The container that the table is inside, doesn't have any type of max width so I can't figure out why it's squeezing this column down as opposed to respecting this width.
Is there anyway around this so no matter what, this column will stay a certain width?
Here is the CSS of the outer container div:
#main
{
margin: 22px 0 0 0;
padding: 30px 30px 15px 30px;
border: solid 1px #AAAAAA;
background-color: #fff;
margin-bottom: 30px;
margin-left: 10px;
_height: 1px; /* only IE6 applies CSS properties starting with an underscrore */
float: left;
/*width: 1020px;*/
min-width:1020px;
display: block;
overflow: visible;
z-index: 0;
}
You may get more luck with setting widths for your table cells if you apply the rule table-layout: fixed to the table - this has helped me with a lot of cell-sizing issues when using tables. I would not recommend switching to using just DIVs to arrange your content if it fits the purpose of tables - to display multidimensional data.
Giving it both max-width and min-width attributes should work.
I agree with Hristo but there are some cases where table need to be used and solution to your table problem is adding below class to the table and then changing any td width as per your need.
.tables{ border-collapse:collapse; table-layout:fixed;}
I hope this helps for someone who is looking for table solution!
I had the same problem with a bunch of columns where I wanted spacers columns.
I used to do:
<td style='width: 10px;'> </td>
But when the table was wider than window, the spacers were not really 10px, but maybe 5px.
And using only DIVs without a TABLE was not an option in my case.
So I tried:
<td><div style='width: 10px;'></div></td>
And it worked very well ! :)
The best way to set your column widths (td's) is to use a table header (th's). Table headers will set the width on your td's automatically. You just have to make sure that your columns inside your thead are the same number of columns in your tbody.
Check it out here:
http://jsfiddle.net/tKAj8/
HTML
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="short-column">Short Column</th> <!-- th sets the width -->
<th class="short-column">Short Column</th> <!-- th sets the width -->
<th class="long-column">Long Column</th> <!-- th sets the width -->
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="lite-gray">Short Column</td> <!-- td inherits th width -->
<td class="lite-gray">Short Column</td> <!-- td inherits th width -->
<td class="gray">Long Column</td> <!-- td inherits th width -->
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
CSS
table { table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100%; }
.short-column { background: yellow; width: 15%; }
.long-column { background: lime; width: 70%; }
.lite-gray { background: #f2f2f2; }
.gray { background: #cccccc; }
I had issues with not being able to size columns in a table-layout: fixed table that was using a colspan. For the benefit of anyone experiencing a variant of that issue where the suggestion above doesn't work, colgroup worked for me (variation on OP's code):
div {
margin: 22px 0 0 0;
padding: 30px 30px 15px 30px;
border: solid 1px #AAAAAA;
background-color: #fff;
margin-bottom: 30px;
margin-left: 10px;
_height: 1px; /* only IE6 applies CSS properties starting with an underscrore */
float: left;
/*width: 1020px;*/
min-width:1020px;
display: block;
overflow: visible;
z-index: 0;
}
td.longColumn {
width: 300px;
}
table {
border: 1px solid;
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
}
td, tr {
border: 1px solid;
}
<div>
<table>
<colgroup>
<col class='longColumn' />
<col class='longColumn' />
<col class='longColumn' />
<col/>
<col/>
<col/>
<col/>
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="7">Stuff</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Long Column</td>
<td>Long Column</td>
<td>Long Column</td>
<td>Short</td>
<td>Short</td>
<td>Short</td>
<td>Short</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
For those that are having Table Cell/Column width problems and table-layout: fixed did not help.
When applying fixed widths to table cells (<td> or <th>), do not assign a width to all of the cells. There should be at least one cell with an (auto) width. This cell will act as a filler for the remaining space of the table.
e.g.
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th style="width: 150">Assigned 150 width to Table Header Cell</th>
<th style="width: 100">Assigned 100 width to Table Header Cell</th>
<th>No width assigned</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="width: 150">Assigned 150 width to Table Body Cell</td>
<td style="width: 100">Assigned 100 width to Table Body Cell</td>
<td>No width assigned</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
P.S. you can use style classes here, you don't need to use an in-line style.
Use table-layout property and the "fixed" value on your table.
table {
table-layout: fixed;
width: 300px; /* your desired width */
}
After setting up the entire width of the table,
you can now setup the width in % of the td's.
td:nth-child(1), td:nth-child(2) {
width: 15%;
}
You can learn more about in on this link: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_tab_table-layout.asp
Can't modify <td> width; that is, column width isn't settable. You can add the styling white-space:nowrap; which might help. Or you can add s to add space to columns.
Maybe you could set col width the HTML way: <td width="70%">January>/td>
Unfortunately, in HTML 4.01 and later, that way isn't valid.
How about something like this...
http://jsfiddle.net/qabwb/1/
HTML
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="row">
<div class="column first longColumn">stuff</div>
<div class="column longColumn">more stuff</div>
<div class="column">foo</div>
<div class="column">jsfiddle</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="column first longColumn">stuff</div>
<div class="column longColumn">more stuff</div>
<div class="column">foo</div>
<div class="column">jsfiddle</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="column first longColumn">stuff</div>
<div class="column longColumn">more stuff</div>
<div class="column">foo</div>
<div class="column">jsfiddle</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
#wrapper {
min-width: 450px;
height: auto;
border: 1px solid lime;
}
.row {
padding: 4px;
}
.column {
border: 1px solid orange;
border-left: none;
padding: 4px;
display: table-cell;
}
.first {
border-left: 1px solid orange;
}
.longColumn {
min-width: 150px;
}