Like the title says, I have a table with many rows and columns. The text within the cells will be populated dynamically. If a column has a set width and the amount of characters exceeds this width, I want the excess text to be hidden rather than the column made wider. How can i achieve this? i tried overflow:hidden in the <td> style without success.
you need to put div inside td - div can handle overflow: hidden
Or make table layout fixed using table style - this will cause table will not change columns width automatically
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Can we adjust column width of a table by adjusting another table's column width?
Elaborately :
In my HTML I have thead part set inside another table tag and the rest of the part in another table tag so that column headers remain fixed while scrolling.
Now I want to adjust column widths by adjusting thead part i.e. column widths must be adjusted automatically when I adjust the thead in another table.
How can I achieve this functionality?
I have to add data to table cells dynamically. But when I add data to one cell, the height of all the other cells also increases. So, is there any way that the height of only that cell where data is added increases, rest remain same.
Also is there any way to insert only table cells beneath certain cells in a row without adding a new row?
embed the content in each cell within a DIV and enable overflow:auto on that div, so that a scroll bar appears if the height exceeds the maximum permitted.
<table><tr><td height="50"> Hello World!!</td></tr></table>
Put the height inside the td tag
Fundamental problem... tables are grids. You can merge cells (col/rowspan) but a line is always a line - which is to say you can't make a cell a different height to its neighbours by definition.
If you're trying to show data in a hierarchical way, use a hierarchical structure like <ul>/<li> and style it as appropriate (margins, etc...). If you need block elements, have each <li> wrap a <div>
i have a <table> and many (34) <td>.
I want to display three variable cells e.g. "name", "hobby1", "hobby2" and then I need to display 31 cells (for each day).
The width of the <table> is limited to about 1000px.
In the day cells always a string of the length 3 shall be displayed or nothing.
My problem is that, the cells never have the same width even if set with css.
The first three columns may be fixed too.
How can I manage my table, that all day <td>s (1-31) have the same width - no matter if the content is nothing or XXX?
http://jsfiddle.net/sBYdu/
A couple of css additions can achieve this.
Use a fixed table-layout
Apply width to your table header not the table cell
Apply word wrapping to the table cells
http://jsfiddle.net/nnePW/
table {
table-layout: fixed;
}
first table is having less number of rows where as another having more row. As both of them are adjacent to each other. without adding more empty rows in it and making use of nbsp. Is there any other tag or attribute which we can use.
Assuming that you want the rows on each table to be the same height, you could put both tables around a div element with a set height and float left. A border effect will make it seem like they're the same height.
Try seeing how it looks with the table height as 100%. If that doesn't render well, give the table a set height and each tr's height as the table height / number of rows.
Is there a way to prioritize one table column in HTML? The thing is, I've got 4 columns, and the content may change a lot for the content in all cells. But I want the first column to take up as much space as possible, so the 3 other columns only use as much width as they need to keep everything on one line.
The table itself has a fixed width.
Assign a class to the three last cells in each row like this: <td class="tight">. Now, add CSS like this to your stylesheet:
td.tight
{
width: 1px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
The width rule instructs your cell to be as narrow as possible, and the white-space rule dictactes that the contents of the cell should never wrap across several lines.
This solution assumes, that the table is styled to have some fixed width (possible 100%).