I have a table of data and each cell is a link. I want to allow the user to click anywhere in the table cell and have them follow the link. Sometimes the table cells are more than one line but not always. I use td a {display: block} to get the link to cover most of the cell. When there is one cell in a row that is two lines and the others are only one line the one liners don't fill the entire vertical space of the table row. Here is the sample HTML and you can see it in action here http://www.jsfiddle.net/RXHuE/:
<head>
<style type="text/css">
td {width: 200px}
td a {display: block; height:100%; width:100%;}
td a:hover {background-color: yellow;}
</style>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.google.com/">Cell 1<br>
second line</a>
</td>
<td>
Cell 2
</td>
<td>
Cell 3
</td>
<td>
Cell 4
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
Set an arbitrarily large negative margin and equal padding on the block element and overflow hidden on the parent.
td {
overflow: hidden;
}
td a {
display: block;
margin: -10em;
padding: 10em;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/RXHuE/213/
You need a small change in your CSS. Making td height:100%; works for IE 8 and FF 3.6, but it doesn't work for Chrome.
td {
width: 200px;
border: solid 1px green;
height: 100%
}
td a {
display: block;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
But making height to 50px works for Chrome in addition to IE and FF
td {
width: 200px;
border: solid 1px green;
height: 50px
}
td a {
display: block;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
Edit:
You have given the solution yourself in another post here; which is to use display: inline-block;.
This works when combined with my solution for Chrome, FF3.6, IE8
td {
width: 200px;
border: solid 1px green;
height: 100%}
td a {
display: inline-block;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
Update
The following code is working for me in IE8, FF3.6 and chrome.
CSS
td {
width: 200px;
border: solid 1px green;
height: 100%;
}
td a {
display: inline-block;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
td a:hover {
background-color: yellow;
}
HTML
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.google.com/">Cell 1<br>
second line</a>
</td>
<td>
Cell 2
</td>
<td>
Cell 3
</td>
<td>
Cell 4
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
The example lays here
Little late to the party, but there's a nice solution I just discovered.
You can use a combination of relative and absolute positioned elements, along with a pseudo element to get the effect you're looking for. No extra markup needed!
Change the table cell (<td>), to be position: relative;, and create a ::before or ::after pseudo element on the <a> tag, and set it to position: absolute;, and also use top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0;.
Because the pseudo element is attached to the anchor tag, and you're telling it to take up the entire table cell, it will force the anchor tag to be at least that size, whilst not affecting the actual content of the anchor tag itself (thereby retaining its vertically centered alignment).
For example
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
table-layout: fixed;
}
td {
position: relative;
width: 200px;
padding: 0.5em 1em;
border: 2px solid red;
background-color: lime;
}
td a {
/* FONT STYLES HERE */
text-decoration: none;
}
td a::after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
z-index: 0;
}
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="http://www.google.com/">Cell 1<br>
second line</a>
</td>
<td>
Cell 2
</td>
<td>
Cell 3
</td>
<td>
Cell 4
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Cell 5
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.google.com/">Cell 6<br>
second line</a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Hope this helps!
Following hack works [Tested on Chrome / Firefox / Safari]
Have the same padding for td and anchor elements. And for anchor also have margin which is equal to -ve of padding value.
HTML
<table>
<tr>
<td><a>Hello</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS:
td {
background-color: yellow;
padding: 10px;
}
a {
cursor:pointer;
display:block;
padding: 10px;
margin: -10px;
}
Working Fiddle :http://jsfiddle.net/JasYz/
Try display: block:
td a {display: block; height:100%;}
[EDIT] WTF ... I can confirm this doesn't work in FF 4 and Chrome. This works:
td a {display: block; height: 2.5em; border: 1px solid red;}
That suggests that height:100%; isn't defined in a table cell. Maybe this is because the cell gets its size from the content (so the content can't say "tell me your size" because that would lead to a loop). It doesn't even work if you set a height for the cells like so:
td {width: 200px; height: 3em; padding: 0px}
Again the code above will fail. So my suggestion is to use a defined height for the links (you can omit the width; that is 100% by default for block elements).
[EDIT2] I've clicked through a hundred examples at http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/ but none of them mix single line and multi-line cells. Seems like you hit a blind spot.
I will post the same answer here, as I did on my own question.
Inspired by Jannis M's answer, I did the following:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('table tr').each(function(){
var $row = $(this);
var height = $row.height();
$row.find('a').css('height', height).append(' ');
});
});
I added a since empty links (not containing text nodes) can not be styled(?).
See my updated fiddle.
Only problem here is that using display: block forces the browser to ignore the vertical align: center...
oops.
I jury rigged it to look right for one cell with height:60 and a font that occupied 20 pixels by adding a br... Then I realized that I had some items with 2-line text. Dang.
I ended up using the javascript. The javascript doesn't give the nice mousey pointy clicker thing, but the line of text does, so it will actually trigger a visual response, just not where I want it to... Then the Javascript will catch all the clicks that 'miss' the actual href.
Maybe not the most elegant solution, but it works well enough for now.
Now if I could only figure out how to do this the right way....
Any ideas on how to add the mouse icon change to a hand for the area covered by the onclick? Right now, the click to page works, but the icon only changes when it hits the href which only affects the text.
Why don't you just get rid of the <a> altogheter and add an onClick to the <td> directly?
<head>
<style type="text/css">
td {
text-align:center;
}
td:hover {
cursor:pointer;
color:#F00;
}
</style>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td onclick="location.href='http://www.google.com/';">Cell 1<br />second line</td>
<td onclick="location.href='http://www.google.com/';">Cell 2</a></td>
<td onclick="location.href='http://www.google.com/';">Cell 3</td>
<td onclick="location.href='www.google.com';">Cell 4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
This way you cut out the middle man.
PS: i know this was asked and answered many years ago, but none of the answers above solved the problem in my case. Hope this helps someone.
For me the only solution is to replace <table> <tr> with <div>s and style them using display:table and display:table-row accordingly.
Then you can replace <td> with just <a> and style it with display:table-cell.
Work perfectly even on varying heights of <td> contents.
so original html without anchors:
<table>
<tr>
<td>content1<br>another_line</td>
<td>content2</td>
</tr>
</table>
now becomes:
a:hover
{
background-color:#ccc;
}
<div style="display:table; width:100%">
<div style="display:table-row">
content1<br>another_line
content2
</div>
</div>
I have used this solution: works better then the rest in my case.
CSS:
.blocktd {width: 100%; height: 100%; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden}
a.blocktd {margin: 0em; padding: 50px 20px 50px 20px; display: block;}
a.blocktd:hover {border: 4px solid #70AEE8; border-radius: 10px; padding: 46px 16px 46px 16px; transition: 0.2s;}
And in HTML: ...
Related
I am using a (bootstrap) table where I put a link inside one of the cells, where it might happen, that the actual link text is empty, thus not showing the link element (or better to say the user can't click it). Now the goal is, that the link element should take up the whole cell space regardless of whether there is some text in the link or not.
<table class="table table-bordered table-striped">
<tr>
<td><a ...>Text that might be empty</a></td>
...
I have tried setting the display property of the a-tag to inline-table which worked for the most browsers except IE. Is there a nice, clean and crossbrowser compatible way to achieve this?
Give the anchor a display: block. It then will take the full width of its parent.
I've made you this demo. By clicking the button, you'll see how it works.
Note, that the anchor should at least have 'something' in it.
$('button').click(function() {
$('a').toggleClass('block');
});
td {
border: 1px solid red;
}
tr, td {
height: 100%;
}
a {
background: blue;
}
a.block {
display: block;
height: 100%;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<table>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>Text<br />text</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Text text</td>
<td>Text text</td>
</tr>
</table>
<button>Toggle block</button>
Set min-width for the column
<td style="min-width:50px"><a ...>Text that might be empty</a></td>
This will work with/without text.
.hasLink{
position: relative;
height: 38px;
}
.hasLink a{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
font-size: 0px; //if you don't want to show any text
padding: 8px 0 0 5px;
}
<tr>
<td class="hasLink"></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
I need to add up-right triangle in a cell.
How to do this?
I tried to add span and icon inside span, but it goes awry
<span style="position: relative;float:right;top:-30px;">#Html.ImageContent("triangle_bonus.png", "")</span>
Using CSS Triangles:
You basically have a 0 height, 0 width element, and use the borders to construct the triangle. Because the line between borders (for example, between top and left) is diagonal, you can create nice looking, solid color triangles with it!
Here's an Example!
HTML:
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td class="note">Triangle!</td>
<td>No Triangle!</td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS:
td {
padding: 20px;
}
.note {
position: relative;
}
.note:after { /* Magic Happens Here!!! */
content: "";
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
width: 0;
height: 0;
display: block;
border-left: 20px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 20px solid transparent;
border-top: 20px solid #f00;
} /* </magic> */
Advantages:
No Images! - Meaning, no extra request.
No Additional Markup! - Meaning, you don't litter your HTML with unsemantic markup.
Looks good on all sizes! - Because it renders in the browser, it would look perfect on any size and any resolution.
Disadvantages:
Depends on pseudo-elements - Meaning that lower versions of IE will not display the triangle. If it's critical, you can modify the CSS a bit, and use a <span> in your HTML, instead of relying on :after.
Found this question through Google and ran into issues, so I'll add this here despite the age of original post.
Madara's answer works in most browsers, and works anywhere outside of a table in all browsers. But as mentioned in the comments, the example doesn't work in Firefox.
There's a very old ticket in Bugzilla concerning position:absolute; not working in <td> elements.
The main solution is to add an inner <div>:
HTML:
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td><div class="note">Triangle!</div></td>
<td>No Triangle!</td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS:
td .note {
padding: 20px;
}
jsFiddle example
I did find that it was possible to achieve without an inner <div> but only when the <td> was empty, which probably doesn't help.
To do cell text inside div it good idea. but if you just put extra div for ARROW not for text. because it creates problem when td has given width and height and text stays on TOP with padding-top:20px;.
I found another solution and tested on All major browsers (eg: IF and FF as well)
.arrow-right-1 {
position: absolute;
top: -1px;
right: -5px;
float: right;
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-left: 10px solid transparent;
border-right: 10px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 10px solid red;
transform: rotate(45deg);
}
td {
border: solid 1px blue;
width: 160px;
height: 100px;
/* padding: 0px !important; */
/* vertical-align: top; */
position: relative;
}
<table class="table">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="arrow-right-1"></div>you can increase or decrease the size of td's height or can put more text
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Hello all I'm just trying to have my border around my table cell right around the text...not stretched the length of the entire table. Its the section with the border around it
CSS:
table.content_table {
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.content_table > tbody > tr > td.results {
border: 2px solid;
background-color: #eeeecc;
font-size: 8pt;
font-weight: bold;
PADDING: 0px;
}
HTML:
<table class="content_table">
<br/><br/>
<h1>Planned Vs Actual Productions Drilldown</h1>
<tr>
<td class="results">
Number of results returned: ${fn:length(beans)}
</td>
</tr>
give the text a simple span or any other block element like div p ... span with inline-block is also a block element which can have a border.
table.content_table {
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
.border {
border: 2px solid;
background-color: #eeeecc;
font-size: 8pt;
font-weight: bold;
PADDING: 0px;
display: inline-block;
}
Any Element inside a table needs to be in TD so that is is valid html... put another tr > td into your table like this
<table class="content_table">
<tr>
<td>
<h1>Planned Vs Actual Productions Drilldown</h1>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="results">
<span class="border">Number of results returned: ${fn:length(beans)}</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
The answer lies in the fact that you have table width as 100%. Without any of styling at the TD level, the TD is automatically going to take the most width it can.
The bigger question though, is why you are using a table at all. This is a single column of data, no need for a table here, just use div's.
I had a similar problem with a WordPress theme. The "collapse" wasn't entirely working on the first column, because my theme's style.css "reset" had set the table width to 100%. At least for me, the "auto" width solved the problem.
<style>
table#donations { border-collapse: collapse; width:auto; }
</style>
<table id="donations">
<tr><td>Bitcoin BTC</td><td>1Prh5VnUJRQV3sARhEfQAMKv9UzGqgAMXg</td></tr>
</table>
So I have this code here:
<table>
<tr>
<td width="200px" valign="top">
<div class="left_menu">
<div class="menu_item">
Home
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td width="1000px" valign="top">Content</td>
</tr>
</table>
with the CSS
.left_menu {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #333333;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 5px;
}
.menu_item {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #CCCCCC;
border-bottom: 1px solid #999999;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
border-top: 1px solid #FFFFCC;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 5px;
}
It works fine on my browser and I have tested it in every browser both mac and PC, but someone is complaining that the td with the width of 200 keeps changing width. I have no idea what he is talking about. Does anyone know why he or she is seeing the width change on the td?
It should be:
<td width="200">
or
<td style="width: 200px">
Note that if your cell contains some content that doesn't fit into the 200px (like somelongwordwithoutanyspaces), the cell will stretch nevertheless, unless your CSS contains table-layout: fixed for the table.
EDIT
As kristina childs noted on her answer, you should avoid both the width attribute and using inline CSS (with the style attribute). It's a good practice to separate style and structure as much as possible.
<table style="table-layout:fixed;">
This will force the styled width <td>. If the text overfills it, it will overlap the other <td> text. So try using media queries.
Width and/or height in tables are not standard anymore; as Ianzz says, they are deprecated. Instead the best way to do this is to have a block element inside your table cell that will hold the cell open to your desired size:
<table>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<div class="left_menu">
<div class="menu_item">
Home
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td valign="top" class="content">Content</td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS
.content {
width: 1000px;
}
.left_menu {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #333333;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 5px;
width: 200px;
}
.menu_item {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #CCCCCC;
border-bottom: 1px solid #999999;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
border-top: 1px solid #FFFFCC;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 5px;
}
This problem is quite easily solved using min-width and max-width within a css rule.
HTML
<table>
<tr>
<td class="name">Peter</td>
<td class="hobby">Photography</td>
<td class="comment">A long comment about something...</td>
</td>
</table>
CSS
.name {
max-width: 80px;
min-width: 80px;
}
This will force the first column to be 80px wide. Usually I only use max-width without min-width to reign in text that is very occasionally too long from creating a table that has a super wide column that is mostly empty. The OP's question was about setting to a fixed width though, hence both rules together. On many browsers width:80px; in CSS is ignored for table columns. Setting the width within the HTML does work, but is not the way you should do things.
I would recommend using min and max width rules, and not set them the same but rather set a range. This way the table can do it's thing, but you can give it some hints on what to do with overly long content.
If I want to keep the text from wrapping and increasing the height of a row - but still make it possible for a user to see the full text, I use white-space: nowrap; on the main rule, then apply a hover rule that removes the width and nowrap rules so that the user can see the full content when they over their mouse over it.
Something like this:
CSS
.name {
max-width: 80px;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}
.name:hover {
max-width: none;
white-space: normal;
overflow:auto;
}
It just depends on exactly what you are trying to achieve. I hope this helps someone.
PS As an aside, for iOS there is a fix for hover not working - see CSS Hover Not Working on iOS Safari and Chrome
You can't specify units in width/height attributes of a table; these are always in pixels, but you should not use them at all since they are deprecated.
You can try the "table-layout: fixed;" to your table
table-layout: fixed;
width: 150px;
150px or your desired width.
Reference:
https://css-tricks.com/fixing-tables-long-strings/
You can use within <td> tag css : display:inline-block
Like: <td style="display:inline-block">
try this:
word-break: break-all;
try to use
word-wrap: break-word;
hope this help
I use
<td nowrap="nowrap">
to prevent wrap
Reference: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_td_nowrap.asp
Note that adjusting the width of a column in the thead will affect the whole table
<table>
<thead>
<tr width="25">
<th>Name</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td>
<td>joe#email.com</td>
</tr>
</table>
In my case, the width on the thead > tr was overriding the width on table > tr > td directly.
I tried with many solutions but it didn't work for me so I tried flex with the table and it worked fine for me with all table functionalities like border-collapse and so on only change is display property
This was my HTML requirement
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>1</th>
<th colspan="3">2</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td colspan="3">2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td colspan="2">3</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
My CSS
table{
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
table tr{
display: flex;
width: 100%;
}
table > thead > tr > th:first-child{
width: 20%;
}
table > thead > tr > th:last-child{
width: 80%;
}
table > tbody tr > td:first-child{
width: 10%;
}
table > tbody tr > td{
width: 30%;
}
table > tbody tr > td[colspan="2"]{
width: 60%;
}
table > tbody tr > td[colspan="3"]{
width: 90%;
}
/*This is to remove border making 1px space on right*/
table > tbody tr > td:last-child{
border-right: 0;
}
If you don't set the table to have table-layout: fixed and a certain width, then the table cells will stretch beyond their own width if content is wider. That's what he/she was complaining about.
Use
<table style="table-layout:fixed;">
It will force table to set to 100% width.Then use this code
$('#dataTable').dataTable( {
bAutoWidth: false,
aoColumns : [
{ sWidth: '45%' },
{ sWidth: '45%' },
{ sWidth: '10%' },
]
});
(table id is dataTable and having 3 column)
to specify length to each cell
I am trying to make an entire table cell clickable. The general advice I have found is to use display: block; but all of the examples I have seen have only a single line cells. I have cells with rowspans that seem to make life harder.
Consider this brightly coloured example:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
td { border: 1px; background-color: blue; }
td a { display: block; background-color: yellow; border: 1px solid red; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td rowspan=2>Left</td>
<td>Upper Right</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lower Right</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The anchor tag's block (yellow) is all clickable. But the left hand side has (blue) margins above and below it that are not clickable. I guess I need something to increase the padding to fill the full td cell on the left (without changing the size of the cells on the right), but I haven't been able to find the right incantation to do this.
td a {
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
background-color: yellow;
border: 1px solid red;
}
Demo
Another option would be to use a javascript package like jquery or YUI and add a click listener to the <td> rather than just the <a>