I created a Bingo Card using Table in HTML. In the second column if I use the letter I, the size of the column automatically reduces and if I use any other letter then size of column comes back to normal. Why its happening so?
Table Image (using I in Column 2): http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/21/18575712.png/
Table Image (using A in Column 2): http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/580/11014314.png/
<html>
<head>
<title>Bingo Card</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Bingo Card</h2>
<table border="1px" width="50%">
<tr>
<th>B</th>
<th>A</th>
<th>N</th>
<th>G</th>
<th>O</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="square0"> </td>
<td id="square1"> </td>
<td id="square2"> </td>
<td id="square3"> </td>
<td id="square4"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="square5"> </td>
<td id="square6"> </td>
<td id="square7"> </td>
<td id="square8"> </td>
<td id="square9"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="square10"> </td>
<td id="square11"> </td>
<td id="square12"> </td>
<td id="square13"> </td>
<td id="square14"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="square15"> </td>
<td id="square16"> </td>
<td id="square17"> </td>
<td id="square18"> </td>
<td id="square19"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="square20"> </td>
<td id="square21"> </td>
<td id="square22"> </td>
<td id="square23"> </td>
<td id="square24"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
I see the same issue in Chrome when column 2 contains an A. If you want to have a guaranteed column width you should explicitly define its size using either the <colgroup> tag or a corresponding width attribute:
<table border="1px" width="50%">
<colgroup>
<col width="20%"></col>
<col width="20%"></col>
<col width="20%"></col>
<col width="20%"></col>
<col width="20%"></col>
</colgroup>
...
or
<tr>
<th style="width:20%">B</th>
...
The browsers just does not make any guarantee if you do not explicitily define the widths for the different columns.
UPDATE: From the HTML4 specification:
If an author specifies no width information for a column, a user agent
may not be able to incrementally format the table since it must wait
for the entire column of data to arrive in order to allot an
appropriate width.
You could try change the column width with css...
And I think it's happening because of the letter 'I' is "thin" compared to other letters, but I don't sure about that...
I think each character takes some space the width of i is less than A, to get resolved use a css style
td{width:20%} this should get resolved
In this simple case, it suffices, for most browsing situations, to set the column widths to the same (20%). However, in general, table cell and column width settings in HTML and CSS are just suggestions and may be overridden by browsers, on the basis of the contents requirements. (You can see this if you use a very narrow browser window width here.)
The way to prevent this is to use “fixed” table layout, e.g.
<style>
table { table-layout: fixed; }
th { width: 20%; }
</style>
“Fixed” layout has its implications. For example, if the content does not fit, it will get truncated.
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I'm not new to HTML but haven't touched it for some good time and I've encountered an annoying problem.
I have a table with two rows.
I want the first row to have one column - means that it will span the entire row, and I want the second row to have three columns, each one 33.3% of the row's width.
I have this code for the table :
<table width="900px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center">check</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
</tr>
</table>
But what happens is weird, the first row has one column with the same size as the second row's first column, and whenever I change one of them, it changes the other one too.
If I give the first row's <td> the width value of 500px lets say, it sets the second row's first <td> to the same size.
What am I doing wrong ?
You should use the colspan attribute on the first row's td.
Colspan="3" will set the cell to flow over 3 columns.
<table width="900px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="3">check</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
</tr>
</table>
You want to use the colspan attribute like this:
<table width="900px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="3">check</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" >check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
<td align="center">check</td>
</tr>
</table>
If you're using JSX (React) it should be written like this. The s in colspan is capitalized and the value is a number instead of a string.
<td colSpan={3}>Text</td>
You can use colspan
<td align="center" colspan="3">check</td>
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_td_colspan.asp
Using colspan like this:
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="3">check</td>
</tr>
By colspan you merge the following cells in a row to one. If you use 2 in your sample you get one cell with a width of the first two columns and the third is as the third in the rest of the table.
alter the first row with the below
<tr>
<td colspan="3" align="center">check</td>
</tr>
I'm having trouble with a table's behaviour in Firefox. I want a table consisting of two columns in the ratio 3:1. The first column includes 3 images in a second table which should resize to fit into the column.
In Chrome the images resize to fit into the first column, which is correctly set to 75%. They do this whether I specify a max-width or do not give them any size attributes. However, in Firefox, the images do not resize and instead the cell expands to be greater than 75%, meaning that the contents of the second column becomes squashed.
The structure of the code looks like this:
<table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10" style="width: 100%;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align:top;width:75%;">
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="image1.jpg" style="max-width:625px;" />
</td>
<td rowspan="2">
<img src="image2.jpg" style="max-width:240px;" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="image3.jpg" style="max-width:625px;" />
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>
Second column
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
How can I adapt this code so that it works correctly in Firefox as well as in Chrome? I've read other related questions, but haven't been able to find a solution I can get to work.
P.S. Please no comments on how I shouldn't be using CSS like this. I have my reasons for not using a proper stylesheet while I'm playing around.
Unless I'm missing the boat, why don't you simply assign a relative width to the image? A value of 100% will ensure the image resizes in tandem with its parent table cell:
<table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10" style="width: 100%;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align:top;width:75%;">
<img src="https://www.google.ca/images/srpr/logo11w.png" style="width:100%;" />
</td>
<td>
Second column
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
ref: http://jsfiddle.net/j26Fm/
The trick here I would say is table-layout: fixed;. It does require some additional rules but table-layout is what brings it all together.
Check out: http://codepen.io/pstenstrm/pen/kLKxz
This is worked for me, in IE, FF and Chrome.
<table style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%; border: 0; cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;">
and
<tr valign="middle">
<td style="width: 25%;"></td>
<td style="width: 25%;"></td>
<td style="width: 25%;"></td>
<td style="width: 25%;"></td>
</tr>
I've got a table with two rows. The first row just has three cells. The second row has two cells, with the first cell containing another table that needs to fill the whole cell.
<table border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr>
<td style="WIDTH: 205px;">1</td> <!--This width doesn't apply in Chrome-->
<td style="width:100%;">2</td>
<td style="WIDTH: 5px;">3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<TABLE width="100%" border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse;table-layout: fixed;">
<TR>
<TD style="width:130px;">
A</TD>
<TD style="width:90px;">
B</TD>
<TD style="width:230px;">
C</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</td>
<td>
D
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Simple enough, really....or so I thought.
It appears as I would expect in IE. But Chrome seems to not apply the width of the first cell correctly. It seems to be affected by the table in the cell below.
Why is this happening, and how can I get around this?
Two things you should do:
On the table element, use table-layout: fixed;
Insert columns and give them a width
(You could also assign width to table headers/cells of the first row)
Like this:
<table border="1" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 205px;">
<col style="width: auto;">
<!-- Use "width: auto;" to apply the remaining (unused) space -->
<col style="width: 5px">
</colgroup>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
<!-- Etc. -->
<table width="100%" border="0">
<table width="600" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr>
<td width="600" colspan="120">Banner Image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="400" colspan="80"></td>
<td width="10" colspan="2" bgcolor="yellow"></td>
<td width="190" colspan="38"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</table>
The alignment is messed up for the 2nd row. How can it be resolved?
Looks like there are a lot of issues here.
First off, this isn't valid html. The second table tag can't go where you have it. You need to do something like:
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr><td>
<table width="600" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr>
<td width="600" colspan="3">Banner Image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="400"></td>
<td width="10" bgcolor="yellow"></td>
<td width="190"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
Which will probably solve your immediate problem. However, why on earth do you have 120 columns? That seems wrong by any standard.
Note I removed the colspan because it's use here seemed very inappropriate.
Also, you might ask yourself why you have the outer table tag anyway. It's not exactly doing anything for you that can't be done in a better manner.
Colspan is used to indicate how many COLumns a single column SPANs, not to indicate a pixel width, as it would appear that you are trying to do here.
Instead, use colspan to indicate how many columns a single column should span, and indicate the width of columns either using css styles or the "width" atttribute.
See this example:
http://jsfiddle.net/xixionia/yt3gf/
The second table should be better if you placed it inside a td on the first table. Then on the second table there's a lot of colspan.
<div>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="600" colspan="3">Banner Image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="400"></td>
<td width="10" bgcolor="yellow"></td>
<td width="190"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
I do prefer to use div in place of table. But you still have a choice. As you can refer to the other post.
You would try:
<table width="100%" >
<table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="120">Banner Image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:400px;" colspan="80">a</td>
<td style="width:10px;" colspan="2" bgcolor="yellow">b</td>
<td style="width:190px;" colspan="38">c</td> </tr>
</table>
</table>
I add "border=1" and text in the cells in order to see the changes.
You got a table inside a table directly and thats not "valid".
Considering:
I want the banner to stretch across the table. The second row should be in proportion of width 400, 10 for the separator and 190
You should have:
<table style="width:100%; background-color: #fff;">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Banner Image</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 66.6%"></td>
<td style="width: 1.6%; background-color: yellow;"></td>
<td style="width: 31.6%"></td>
</tr>
</table>
You are clearly trying to use tables to make layout wireframes. You should research more about CSS and html5.
This answer will probably fix your code but not the logic you are trying to apply.
I have this problem on my website's layout, and it's basically preventing me from continue it, it's destroying everything.
Here goes the HTML code:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="446" height="362">
<!-- MSTableType="layout" -->
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="2" height="110">
<p align="center">Banner</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" height="95">I want this cell to have a fixed height</td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" width="305">
<p align="center">Text goes here - if the text is too long, I want the
stretching cell to vary in height, not the other 2.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" height="68">I want this cell to have a fixed height</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="89" width="141" valign="top">Stretching/Flexible cell - I
want this one to vary in height if the text on the right cell is too
long</td>
</tr>
</table>
As you can see, if I write a text that is larger than the "Text Cell" height, all the cells in the right column stretch, and I only want the last one to do so. Can you help me?
If you try to make a website with tables, then welcome to 21sst century. Table layout is very outdated. Try a site like http://www.pmob.co.uk/temp/3colfixedtest_4.htm. There you find a web standard layout.
Make the height of the bottom-left cell "*" like this:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="446" height="362">
<!-- MSTableType="layout" -->
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="2" height="110">
<p align="center">Banner</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" height="95">I want this cell to have a fixed height</td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" width="305">
<p align="center">Text goes here - if the text is too long, I want the
stretching cell to vary in height, not the other 2.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" height="68">I want this cell to have a fixed height</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="*" width="141" valign="top">Stretching/Flexible cell - I
want this one to vary in height if the text on the right cell is too
long</td>
</tr>
</table>
This won't let you define the minimum height of the cell, but it works. Best of course would be to use css.
Actually, as I think about this, you can set the height of your right column to "257" (the sum of your left heights, and that will mean that your * will default to 89 if the right column does not stretch.
I am sure this is not cross-browser compatible however... Yup, just dusted off IE6, and it doesn't behave as one would expect. Firefox works great, though.
This probably means that css would be your best bet.
I would at least try to learn some CSS and use it to style and size your tables, instead of using HTML. There are many good tutorials out there, but for example:
table {
width: 600px;
}
table td {
padding: 5px;
}
will make your table 600px wide and give every <td> 5px of padding. Assign any cells or rows ids (unique) and classes (apply to a group) for more precise control.
As noted above, although it is not really an answer to your question, the best way to do what you want to do is to learn how to create CSS layouts using <DIV> tags. This will give you much more control of your page layout, and although requires some learning up front, will save you tremendous amounts of headaches in the future using tables.
Actually, looking at your example again. a based layout here would be very simple.
<div id='container'>
<div class='banner'>Banner</div>
<div class='fixed'>Fixed Height</div>
<div class='dynamic'>Expanding div to fit text inside</div>
<div class='fixed'>Fixed Height</div>
<div class='dynamic'>Expanding div to fit text inside</div>
</div>
This will give you the same layout as your table with some CSS styling.
EDIT: One last word on the matter. For me personally, if I know that an area is going to be a grid type area with no special formatting needs for different areas a <table> is fine, otherwise I will always use a CSS based layout.
Thanks for the responses guys. I tried for the last few hours to built this with divs, but i'm going nowhere. I have lots of rowspans ans colspans, and I can't put them in CSS.
Actually the design is WAY more complicated that the simple table I posted here:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="750" height="871">
<!-- MSTableType="layout" -->
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Banner</td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3">
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Banner</td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3" colspan="2">
<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Banner</td>
<td height="154"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Banner</td>
<td height="24"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3">Fixed Menu Cell</td>
<td height="122"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="3">
Banner</td>
<td height="29"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" rowspan="6" colspan="2"><p> </p>
<p>CONTAINER AREA, Text goes Here</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="6">
</td>
<td height="102"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
Fixed Menu Cell</td>
<td height="37"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
Fixed Menu Cell</td>
<td height="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
Fixed Menu Cell</td>
<td height="178"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
Fixed Menu Cell</td>
<td height="109"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Flexible Cell - can vary depending on the
Container Area</td>
<td height="33"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="4">
<p align="center">Bottom</td>
<td height="38"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="252"></td>
<td width="410"></td>
<td width="56"></td>
<td width="30"></td>
<td height="1" width="2"></td>
</tr>
</table>
I'm trying to convert this mess to DIV, but I don't think I'm going to make it ^^''
It seems such a simple problem, but I can't see a simple soluction...