I have a table with 4 columns. The first 3 columns should only take up the space they need to display the data / ui control that is placed in them, whereas the fourth column should take up the remaining space. I don't know while creating the table what widths the first three columns should be, so I can't put a "width" value in there.
If I set the fourth column to 100% width, then it squishes the first three columns too much; if there is a drop down list ("select" in html terms) in one of those columns, the last column would then force it to become somewhere around 20 pixels wide, whereas it should be as wide as the option element which has the longest text in that menu.
Other rows in the table will cells that span multiple columns, so I think I'm stuck using the table element (as opposed to divs etc)
Any ideas? IE6 is not supported by the site so whatever works in Firefox / Chrome should be good.
Try putting width:1%; white-space:nowrap; in the first three columns and leave the fourth without width
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How can I create columns like on attached image? I don't know how to set space between all columns. Please any hint.
You could add a margin to you columns. To have 4 columns, you'd start with a div with the class="row" then inside of that a div with the class=col-md-3 (or whichever size you want the 4 columns across), and give that div a margin-right of however many px's you want. Your final column (the 4th one in the row) probably should not have the margin-right if your design has the columns centered on the page. Bootstrap automatically gives columns 15px on either side. If you need to look up more information about how it works, the space between columns is called the "gutter" so you could search "gutter width" for example to find different ways of working with it.
I have a simple HTML table, 100% width, with 4 columns ...
When the table is very large and the data in the columns is small I get a large space between columns ...
Would be possible to make all the columns next to each other and leave that white space only on the last column?
Not sure if this helps, but you could give the first three columns a width (if you know what width you want) and leave the fourth unspecified. The fourth column will then auto-adjust to take up the 'slack'.
How to create the one-row table, that has fixed TR height (the limit is two rows), but each TD has flexible width and forced word-wrapping.
The main question: is it possible to force each TD to use always the complete height (use two rows) when there is more then one word, i. e. if TD contains one word it should be displayed in one row, if TD contains more then one word it should be displayed in two rows (in this case browser should set the TD width automatically).
This appears to be impossible. The table layout mechanism tries to avoid line breaks inside cells when there is enough horizontal space. By setting e.g. width: 0 on the cells, you could override this so that the browser makes each cell as narrow as possible (effectively, as wide as the widest word, in the case of pure text content), but then e.g. three words make three lines, causing the height setting to be overridden.
If you specify the context and purpose of wanting such a layout, perhaps a new, solvable problem can be formulated.
I have a table with several rows.
My 1st row has the full width of the table table.
The 2nd row has 4 columns with different sizes for each of them.
The 3rd row's first column's width is greater than the total width (1st coloumn's width+2nd coloumn's width +25) of the 2nd row.
Which attribute should I use for this type of design? colonspan is not working in this case
In a table the cells have the width of the column and the height of the row.
Thus, the only way to have two cells above each-other with different widths is if you use colspan.
So you will have to juggle colspans. See: http://jsfiddle.net/CBWJf/
You can maybe set the widths using colgroups.
If you aren't going to have anything immediately adjacent to the shorter rows, you can make all the rows the same width (the width of the widest table row), and adjust the size of each row using colspan on the cells, and setting the cells beyond the end of the row to have no border (thus appearing not to exist). However, if you are going to have any content there, you will have to either use a different method than this or include that content in the "invisible" cells.
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?