I'm having a bit of an issue getting some stylesheet behavior that I want. I'm not even sure if it's possible. Basically I'm attempting to place a table with a variable number of cells with static cell width in a DIV with overflow: auto, and my goal is that when the tables width extends past the width of the container DIV that it becomes scrollable.
This isn't the case. The cells get shrunk together. A very basic representation (with inline styles for ease on this; not actually in the application haha) of the code:
<div style="width: 1000px; overflow-x: auto;">
<table>
<tr>
<td style="width:400px;">
This
</td>
<td style="width:400px;">
Should
</td>
<td style="width:400px;">
Scroll!
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Is there anyway I can do this with CSS, or am I going to have to go back to setting the width inline on a second div containing the table through calculations?
Works if you set the width on the table itself.
<table style="width:1200px;">
The td will always shrink to the necessary size, they won't push the table wider in that situation.
using CSS can done like below but make sure you use id or class for applying css if you have more then one table or div.
<style>
div { width: 400px; overflow-x: auto; }
table { width:1200px; }
table td { width:400px; }
</style>
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
This
</td>
<td>
Should
</td>
<td>
Scroll!
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
This should help
<table style="width: max-content;">
Related
Why does this table height not function?
<table border=1 bgcolor="green" width=80% height="30%">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" >
This is 1st row 1st column
</td>
<td >
2
</td>
</tr>
</table>
http://jsfiddle.net/zQNS4/
just add the following to your css:
html, body{
height: 100%;
}
As other said, a table doesn't have a height-attriute, but most browsers intrepet that anyway. you can see the result on jsfiddle.
The reason you need to do this is that the parent element of anything that should have a height in % must have a height too (as Shadow Wizard said: "30% of what exactly?" - the parent has to have a height).
The table tag does not contain a height attribute. Try setting the height of the table using CSS styling.
table{
height: 30%;
}
<div style="height: 200px; overflow-y: scroll;">
<table border=1 bgcolor="green">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" >
This is 1st row 1st column
</td>
<td>
2
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
I just had the same issue.
I have table inside a container ( div config-table ), just setting height didn't work for me. I had to set overflow: auto ( for my case auto was needed ) and now work
.config-table {
height: 350px;
overflow: auto;
}
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;}
I'm having a bit of a odd issue with my height of tables.
I have parent table (I know, I know tables... but I have no choice :( ) which has one row.. that contains 2 cells. each cell has a table of its own. The children tables have a border around them. I would like them both to stay the same height so that the borders align no matter how much content is in either. (they have flexible amounts of content so it cannot be set)
If you take the code below and dump it into a html file you will see (in Chrome at least) the right child table does not fill 100% of its cell that it is in. If you remove the "height:auto" on the parent table. then it does work but it also makes the parent table 100% height..
Why would these two things effect each other?
<style>
.cl2_h { background:red; }
.cl1_h { background:blue;}
.cl1, .cl2{ width:100%; border:1px solid black;}
table, tbody { height:100%; }
</style>
<table style="border:1px solid red;height:auto;">
<tbody>
<tr style="height:100%;">
<td style="width:50%">
<table class="cl2" style="text-align:left;">
<tbody>
<tr class="cl2_h">
<td>
RANDOM TEXT HERE
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<span>Select which asd asdthis item relates to.</span>
<ul>
<li>
<select>
<option value="-1">Please Select...</option>
</select>
</li>
<li>
<select>
<option value="302">Please Select...</option>
</select>
</li>
</ul>
SOME RANDOM TEXT
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table class="cl2" style="height:100%">
<tbody>
<tr class="cl2_h">
<td>
asd asd asd asda sda(NTF)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
DROPDOWNLIST Here
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Something of note is that if i set the parent to 200px then it continues to work... So I guess the real question is why doesn't it work when inside a parent table of "Auto" height
You can accomplish this using Javascript/jQuery:
var maxHeight;
$('.cl2').each(function() {
maxHeight = Math.max(maxHeight, $(this).height());
}).height(maxHeight);
Steve, "height: auto" does not inform the browser in time for render what the final height of the containing table will be so the 100% on the child tables is syntactically superfluous.
Only if you give css with a specified height (or give no height) to the parent container will the children know what "100%" means at render.
If you MUST keep the height: auto on the parent table then #RobB has a good javascript solution, but I would recommend either setting a specific height for the parent table or not setting one at all if you can help it.
I have a to-columns table in a div :
<div>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="action" >
<a> ✔ </a>
</td>
<td class="content">
<p>Bigger text...(variable size).......</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="action" >
<a> ✔ </a><a> ✘ </a>
</td>
<td class="content">
<p>Bigger text...(variable size).......</p>
</td>
</tr>
... same structure in all the table
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
And I would like the "action" column to fit the content, and the "content" column to take the rest of available space. The "action" column would look better with a right align.
The table should also fit 100% of the container's width.
Is there a way of doing this without fixing the columns width ?
I tried with this:
table .action
{
width:auto;
text-align:right;
}
table
{
border-collapse:collapse;
border-spacing:0;
width:100%;
}
But the left column takes half of the table...
Giving the content td a 100% width will force it to take as much space as it can, so .content{ width: 100% } should work.
Also give the .action a white-space: nowrap to make sure the x and the checkmark stay next to each other. Otherwise the content will be able to take even more space and force the icons below each other.
table .action
{
width:auto;
text-align:right;
white-space: nowrap
}
table .content {
width: 100%
}
table
{
border-collapse:collapse;
border-spacing:0;
width:100%;
border: 1px solid
}
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="action" >
<a> ✔ </a>
</td>
<td class="content">
<p>Bigger text...(variable size).......</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="action" >
<a> ✔ </a><a> ✘ </a>
</td>
<td class="content">
<p>Bigger text...(variable size).......</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Set the column width: 1px and white-space: nowrap.
This will try to make it 1px, but the nowrap will stop it from getting smaller than the widest element in that column.
I found this answer when trying to make one column of many as small as possible.
Giving the content td a 1% width will force it to take as little space as it can, so .content{ width: 1% } worked for me.
The bootstrapian way of doing this:
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-1"> content... </div>
<div class="col"> content... </div>
</div>
Basically you need to try out different things keeping in mind the following:
col-sm Small column
col-sm-1 Smallest column
col-sm-2 Slightly bigger than smallest column (Numbers go from 1 to 12)
col-md Medium sized columns (same numbering rule)
col-lg Large sized columns (same numbering rule)
I want to display 4 or 5 boxes(vary) which occupy's 100% of the page width, so it will span start to end of page. and want height just to fit contents.
I am trying to use table for that so it will assign width for each box and fill up whole row.
Problem with code below is all divs in td are centered and does not have same height. tried all i can think of but it doesn't work. tried vertical alignment, height to 100% .....
How can i have all div in td with same height?
Also if there is another way to doing same please let me know. I am html dummy so may not using the right thing.
<table style="width: 100%; text-align:justify;">
<tr>
<td>
<div style="margin-right:15px; background-color:Gray">
Some text here
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div style="margin-right: 15px; background-color:Gray">
column 2 text here
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div style="margin-right: 15px; background-color:Gray">
Column 3 text here
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div style="background-color:Gray">
Last column text here
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Like I've told plenty of other people, you shouldn't be using divisions inside table cells.
This will achieve the exact same effect, without the divisions:
<table style="width: 100%; text-align: justify;">
<tr>
<td style="margin-right: 15px; background-color: gray;">
Some text here
</td>
<td style="margin-right: 15px; background-color: gray;">
column 2 text here
</td>
<td style="margin-right: 15px; background-color: gray;">
Column 3 text here
</td>
<td style="background-color: gray;">
Last column text here
</td>
</tr>
</table>
If you get rid of the divs and apply your styles and content directly to the table cells you will get the effect you want.
In case there is no special purpose of using div tag inside td. I would just do it without div. add style to td tag.
Mamu, I would suggest that you do not use inline style elements. Instead of styling your table tags it would be far more efficient, and better to add the the following between your <head> tags:
<style type="text/css">
table {width:100%; text-align:justify;}
table td {margin-right:15px; background-color:gray;}
</style>
Using only those two lines of code you can apply the same elements consistently across your entire website. If you only wanted to apply them to some elements, you could create classes by adding a "." to a name of your choice:
<style type="text/css">
.MyTable {width:100%; text-align:justify;}
.MyTable td {margin-right:15px; background-color:gray;}
</style>
And add the following to your HTML:
<table class="MyTable">
Note that class names are case sensitive. But this reusable code is far more efficient.
Furthermore, I would urge to consider the use of tables only if you are presenting tabular data. Tables load slower and are not SEO friendly. It would not be semantically correct to use them for layout. You should separate content from presentation whenever possible, and if it is layout you are after I would suggest using divs and other elements instead.