I have been trying to lay out a table with the following:
two or three columns that automatically size to fit the content in them
anywhere from 1 to 4 columns that resize according to the width of the table, and which truncate the text inside them
one column that contains three buttons and which I want to be exactly 220 pixels wide
I got it pretty much working thanks to the answers on this question. I set "min-width" on the first two or three columns, and "width" on the last column, and in the middle columns I wrap the text in a div, and then set "max-width" on the td and on the div I set width: 100%;text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden;. All that works fine on Chrome and Firefox and Safari and even IE 10.
The problem happens on IE7, 8, and 9. On all three "browsers", the middle divs don't truncate, they instead push out the width of columns to fit all the text, which blows out the table wider than the page.
I tried putting a table-layout: fixed; on the table on IE, but instead of getting what I expected or indeed anything sane at all, instead what I get is that all the columns are given the same width, ignoring the "width: 220px" on the last column's tds, and then after everything is laid out the last column expands to 220px, and blows out the table. If you don't understand what I'm saying, have a look at
http://jsfiddle.net/ptomblin/rHJk9/
in IE debugger or "Inspect Element" in Chrome or Firefox. If you look at the "Layout" of a td of last column, and it shows a small width same as all the other columns, even though the contents are 220px wide.
On the live site, putting the "ie8" class on the body is done using conditional <IF IE8> code, but jsfiddle doesn't seem to like that.
What I'm looking for is either a way to make the table work the same way on IE7-9 as it does on real browsers (without table-layout:fixed) or some "good enough" work-around that would at least fit on the screen, with or without table-layout:fixed.
http://imgur.com/44DeZv5 has a screen shot showing it on IE9. I've added a red line to show the actual edge of the table. Note how the button bar, which is in a td in that table, extends beyond not just the table, but beyond the actual screen width. (The browser is set to 1024x768, the table is inside a .content div that's 940 pixels wide)
http://imgur.com/0Zielaf is what it looks like in IE9 when you don't have the "table-layout: fixed"
http://imgur.com/K8Ob6VR is what it looks like on Chrome without the "table-layout: fixed". Note how it all fits on the screen and in the table. That's what I'm aiming for.
I found out what the problem was that caused table-layout: fixed to allocate all the columns exactly the same width, no matter what the width parameter on the actual column values: It was happening because the first row on the table had a single column with colspan="7". I figured it out because on W3Schools in the description of table-layout: fixed they mentioned:
The browser can begin to display the table once the first row has been received
which made me realize that it was probably only looking at the first row. I stuck in a dummy first row with empty columns, but with the appropriate classes on each one to give them appropriate widths, and it laid them out much better. (I also set the font size, height, and line-height, top and bottom margins and padding to 0 for this dummy row so it isn't distracting)
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I am working on a table that looks like this:
There are 2 issues here:
the column header IPV6 Address is taking small width than the body's column width. And Model and Type are not in place. How to fix this?
I want the scrollbar only when the table columns are not fitting the screen.
I see you're using white-space: nowrap. This might be the cause of your column width issues. Try removing this to see what it looks like multi-line, this will allow the table contents to at least attempt to use the available space properly without being forced over the space provided causing the effect with the "IPv6 Address" that you see.
Most of the time if I have fixed widths for columns (especially with nowrap) in any table I look to truncate the contents of the text within if I want everything to display on one line neatly and not wrap.
https://material.angularjs.org/1.1.2/api/directive/mdTruncate
I have a pretty nested structure of tables from a CMS. Each column has a specified width e.g. width="61" for the first column.
Nevertheless Chrome ignores the width and adds random spacing so none of the columns have the right width in the end and it looks like this:
Other browsers display the code just fine.
I have tried to use table-layout: fixed but that made everything worse.
Here's the fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/xv8U5/
Help greatly appreciated.
I believe there is a difference of rules depending on the browser. Most browser will scale the TD to the largest TD of the same column. Chrome, however, seems to use the first TD's width as column width.
Hence, if you specify the width of a TD after the first row, that width will be ignored if the first row already contained a TD for that column.
The solution is to specify the width right from the first row.
I'm facing a rather difficult issue at the moment; really appreciate your help.
I have a table with 2 columns, td1 and td2, and containing texts and both of which have fixed widths.
td1.width = 10px and td2.width = 20px
the fixed width are set at runtime one by one from the left using JQuery (as this table is nested inside another table...)
The text width may be longer than these fixed widths in which scenarios the expected behaviour is that
the fixed width of the columns should stay the same 1) if there are extra texts, the text should wrap, it should not increase or decrease the td width 2) if there are empty spaces, the cell width should not be reduced when resizing other columns or page; it should stay intact.
I have set the td.whitespace property to pre-wrap and td.word-wrap: break-word but they haven't helped.
how would these be possible using css 2.0 (not 3.0)?
Thanks,
In this case, because the widths are so small, and the text doesn't typically have words that small, it has no way to wrap them, so it extends the width of the td even with a set width!
It decreases the width of the second td because the first is using an extra width.
Also, you could have a situation where the text is so wide (a long word for example) and in that case there is no way to wrap it. Unless using javascript, IMO it is the only way.
I recommend reading this answers: HTML TD wrap text
ok, I got it resolved. My table had thead and colgroups. Althought their display attribute was hidden, IE 9.0 ignores it whereas IE 6.0 takes them into account in calculating the width of columns!
I removed them using jquery and sorted out!
$('.myTable thead, .myTable colgroup').remove();
I have a table with 1 row and 5 columns. I have fixed the width of those 5 columns to certain known values (150px, 200px etc..). I have also set the left-margin for each one.
I want the table to widen and occupy the entire width of its parent. So, I set its width to 100%. When the table is wider than the combined width and margins of the 5 columns, it causes them to spread out across the table leaving gaps in between.
But, I want those 5 columns to stay on the left.
To achieve this, I added a 6th column and set its width to auto, hoping that it will properly push the first 5 to the left and occupy the remaining space. It works in Firefox and Chrome. But it doesn't work in IE. In IE, the 5 columns still space themselves evenly across the table.
I tried setting the width of the 6th column to 100% instead of auto. But the problem is, it is wiping out the left-margins of the 5 columns! Sort of like, the 100% column is pushing the 5 columns too much to the left that their margins have disappeared!
I want the padding, margin and width of the first 5 columns to be maintained, but pushed to the left, yet the table should expand as wide as its parent.
The table has a background image that needs to show up beyond the 5 columns.
Some might suggest that I move the background to the table's parent, but I can't - take my word for it :D
How can I get this to work in Firefox, Chrome and IE?
Thanks.
Here is the link : http://test.greedge.com/table/table.php. Try it in FF and IE
Edit: The solution is simple: Add a to the one td in the table in the last column.
The table cell of the inlying table is not rendered, because it contains nothing. Thus, the last cell also contains nothing, does not get rendered, and the other cells have to split the available space amongst them.
I don't know which browser is doing the right thing here, all IE's (including 8) don't render the column, all other browsers do.
Old answer:
Columns aren't supposed to have margins according to the CSS 2.1 spec:
margin-right, margin-left
Applies to: all elements except elements with table display types other than table-caption, table and inline-table
You will need to use padding within the cells.
An auto column should work in any browser in the scenario you describe (just don't specify any width). Can you post an online example of a table that doesn't work?
I have a table in a HTML form. It has a fixed height for optical reasons. The number of rows in the table varies depending on the number of form fields available.
Problem: If there are very few rows, all rows are stretched vertically, increasing the space between input elements.
I could avoid this by giving the data rows a (fake) fixed height. I don't like that approach because there is no fixed height I could give it (relative font sizes, accessibility) and I fear future problems - say for example that IE9 decides to take cell heights literally.
What can I do?
I have a last (empty) row but no idea what to put in there so that it automatically occupies all "available" space.
Put heightless table in a div with a fixed height which mimics the table (border? bgcolor?).
By the way, just doing tbody { display: inline; } instead of an empty row works in all real browsers. No, not in MSIE. The tbody element has a lot of shortcomings in MSIE. It also lacks the ability to overflow: scroll; which would be great to have a scrollable table with a fixed header.
Couldn't you set the cell height to 100% for the last empty row, this should presumably cause that last row to take up the rest of the fixed space
I guess this is not doable.
Yeah, table based websites are beyond ages, however you would still need tables to display data. In fact I have to agree with Pekka that this is not doable on the table cell itself, but there is something we can fashion:
Try wrapping the data inside the td cell into a div and style that div to the height you want and set its overflow property to hidden.