I have a table nested as such:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<table>...
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
More precisely:
some style info:
div.centered{
text-align: center;
height:100%;
}
div.centered table.centeredT {
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
max-width: 781px;
overflow: hidden;
height:100%;
}
Layout:
<table style="height:100%; min-height:100%;" class="centeredT" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="781px" >
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align:top; padding-bottom:7px;padding-right:5px;width:33%;height:100%;">
<table style="table-layout:fixed;height:100%;min-height:100%;border:solid 1px black;" border="0" id="Table1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="verdanaSmall" width="257px" >
<!--this first row is simply a spacer row because I am using table-layout:fixed attribute -->
<tr>
<td width="80px"></td>
<td width="175px"></td>
</tr>
<tr >
<td colspan="2" style="height:100%;">
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-top: solid 1px black; border-bottom: solid 1px black;">
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;"> 1.) </td>
<td align="center" height="20">
<a href="results.asp?pubid=31422&date=10%2F11%2F2010&ttype=eqq"target="_top">
<font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#22476C"><b> Abilene Reporter News </b></font>
</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#22476C"> Monday, October 11, 2010 </font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="2" height="100%" id="imagetd">
<a href="../PDFView/PDFView.aspx?pgID=32065209&adID=96332396&ref=50" target="_blank">
<img src="/pages/201010/11/31422/thumbs/A000300001H.gif" style="border: solid 1px black;" alt="" />
</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
The reason for this is that the page is filled dynamically and the inner table is inserted inside a data loop. Anyway, the question is that the inner table is not filling 100% of the available height of the encapsulating td cell. I have set the inner table height, via css, to 100%, the encapsulating table, and also the body tag and so on up the chain. If you look at the page in firefox and opera it lays out perfect but IE does not seem to be obeying the height specifics and just making the table big enough to display the data, does anybody know of a hack/fix for IE, or a way I can correct this..?
As the problem describes: the td-element itself does automatically stretch to 100%, but (in IE) for some reason its height is not passed to its children as 100%.
The solution is quite simple: just add 'height: 100%' to the td-element that is parent of the nested table. This way 100% height will be passed to the td's children when using height: 100%; on them.
It fixes the problem in IE and doesn't seem to cause any problems in other browsers (tested on new browsers Chrome, Firefox and IE).
NOTE: setting the td's height to 100% with an nested table may cause the cell to expand too much. In that cause the height may have to be adjusted to compensate the height of the other rows. With CSS3 this can be easiliy achieved with calc(100% - [height of other rows])
PS: I'm aware that the above question is really old, but I stumbled upon this while googling for a simular problem and it seems no (correct) answer has been provided to this one. For others who will find this page just like I did, it might be helpfull to find an
answer.
Try set padding:0px; on cointaner and inner table.
Ok I havent tested anything but it doesnt look like you have set the inner table height to 100%. You have a class table.centeredT but you have not specified the class on the table. Nor have you specified height: 100% on the inner table itself. Give me a few more minutes and I will try to achieve this on jsfiddle.
Edit: One thing which did just occur to me - which wont be causing the problem but just decreases the code a bit - is that you could use the col attribute instead of an extra row at the top. I have heard that this isnt 100% supported, but I have never had a problem with it personally.
Edit: Ok I have no idea... spent ages on this and not getting anywhere. I personally havent used tables in months - I am good enough at divs, float and clear and alike that I can easily make what looks like a table without a table. If I had to display data in a meaningful way then I would use a table. Is this for displaying data, or can it be displayed just using divs / float / clear?
You need to have fixed heights of the elements that should be spanned to 100% height. Fixed heights means you'll have to set them in pixel height instead of percentage. See this SO question and solution with similar code:
Iframe { height:70%;} not working in IE 8 and Firefox
Related
In the following JS-Fiddle example, why the inner table expand to the width of the screen, when its container has a max width property set?
<table bgcolor="white" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" style="width:100%">
<tr>
<td style="max-width:580px; border: solid 1px green">
<table bgcolor="red" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" style="width:100%">
<tr>
<td>
MY TEST CELL!!
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<td>
</tr>
</table>
<table> element uses css property display: table which doesn't behave "normally". If you want your elements to behave as expected, use display: inline-block or display: block. This way your element will actually pay attention to your max-width declaration.
However, it seems you are trying to use tables to layout your content, and this is a bad practice. Tables are used for tabular data only. If your content is a paragraph, use <p>, for instance.
Also try to avoid inline styling, always use external css files.
Chrome has a bug that seems unlikely to get fixed anytime soon:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178369
Basically it happens that Chrome can't handle column widths correctly if the cells themselves contain "width=100%" elements.
I need the 100% width elements in the cells.
Does anybody know a workaround for that bug?
Testcase:
<table style="width: 800px; border: 1px solid black">
<tr>
<td>
<table style="width: 100%; border: 1px solid blue">
<tr>
<td style="width: 100%; background: red;">
1
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table style="width: 100%;">
<tr>
<td style="width: 100%; background: green;">
2
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Simply adding
table-layout: fixed
for the outer table should do it. http://jsfiddle.net/ysqx6j4t/
NOTE: Chrome ignores td style widths unless they are set in very first row of a table. (IE used to do that about 15 years ago.)
So you can't have a single td and colspan=n in first row.
I apologize in advance for this being a response and not answer...
It seems that the bug has now infected not only Chrome, but also newer versions of Opera and Vivaldi. None of these work-around suggestions work with Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera (newer releases!), even if style widths are set in the first row, and especially if any column in that first row has a 'min-width' set -- a greedy (ie 100% is ignored).
Setting a column width to 100% so that is 'greedy' DOES work in all versions of Firefox (all the way back to version 3.5!). It also works in Opera 12 (!) but not Opera 65 -- [which shows that just copying someone else's code is not always productive.]
An aHA moment -->
The actual bug is this:
If a cell (in any column, not necessarily the first col in the first row) spans multiple columns, and attempts to force the colspan to be greedy, that ends up being applied to the first column ONLY - not to the group.:
So,
<!-- EXAMPLE 0 -->
...
<tr >
<td colspan=4>
<td colspan=8>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100% style="font-size:11pt;">
<tr style="font-size:8pt;">
<td width=100%><hr>
<td class=pnote> SYNOPSIS / EXAMPLE</tr>
<tr ><!-- THIS IS WHERE IT WENT WRONG IF THE CELL
had any markup in addition to colspan=2 -->
<td colspan=2><b>layerinfo = </b>App.Do (Environment, 'ReturnLayerProperties', {})
<!-- another solution is to encapsulate everything in this row/cell in another table ...
<td colspan=2><table width=100%...
</table>
-->
<tr style="font-size:8pt;">
<td width=100%><hr>
<td class=pnote> RETURNS</tr>
<tr >
<td width=100% nowrap><b>layerinfo : {</b>
<td class=pnote> </td>
...
</table></tr>
And the result now is correct [(a) the and the label no longer split the row equally, nor (b) the text on the spanned cell no longer defines the width
of the first column of the table. (wierd, but it happened)
I'm trying to recreate a daily schedule view in a mobile website design. The PC version looks like this:
It will have several rows, and up to 5 or 6 columns. I think a table will be best, but can't find the right CSS/HTML to get this to work how I want.
I want the first column to have an auto width, to fit the content, and the rest to be equal (evenly distributed). The entire table will be 100% width.
I can get this by setting the column widths as follows: 0; 50%; 50%; -- and not using table-layout: fixed; The problem is, I can't have the width of any cells getting wider just because the content is too large. If I use table-layout: fixed, it keeps the cells the correct size, but the first column is 0 width, instead of auto/fit. I tried placing the content inside each cell in a span or div and setting those to: width: 100%; overflow: hidden;, but I don't think the width: 100% really works inside a table that isn't fixed.
If I really have to, I'll set a fixed width for the first column, but I'd like to avoid this because I don't want to use fixed font sizes -- especially because this will be a mobile website, for smart-phones and tablets.
I might be able to do something by using nested tables or floats... the first column not being part of the same table, but I'm hoping there is a super clean solution I'm missing, and I can keep all of this in a single table.
EDIT: As requested, here is one version of my code that I have tried. The styles with x in front of the names are just different things I have tried (I add the x to quickly remove, and easily put back):
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; xwhite-space: nowrap; xtable-layout: fixed;">
<tr>
<td style="width: 0; background-color: Lime;">
Time
</td>
<td style="width: 50%; background-color: Silver;">
ERIC
</td>
<td style="width: 50%; background-color: Gray;">
DONNA
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8:00am</td><td> </td><td>Do Something</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9:00am</td><td style="width: 50%; overflow: hidden;"><div style="width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: hidden;">Do Something else with more text so we can see how this works when too long and really longer than it ever should be</div></td><td style="width: 50%;"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
The above version is as close as I've got, but the long text for "ERIC" at 9am wraps to multiple lines. If I change it to not wrap, then the cell gets too wide (even with overflow: hidden).
Your table width is 100% and the second and third columns are width 50% each and your first column is 0%. Definitely, it doesn't work because it has already used up the 100% width for the second and third columns.
In case it isn't possible to do what I want with one table, here is a nested table solution that doesn't seem as bad as I thought:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;">
<tr>
<td style="width: 0;">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td>Time</td></tr>
<tr><td>8:00am</td></tr>
<tr><td>9:00am</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; white-space: nowrap;">
<tr><td>ERIC</td><td>DONNA</td></tr>
<tr><td style="overflow: hidden;">This cell has a lot of text so that I can test for overflow issues even if I make my browser window very wide</td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>Whatever</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/fWFPm/4/
I'm trying to lay out a responsive email template to work across all major clients, and I'm just about there, but since Outlook doesn't support max-width, and I have all elements set to width: 100%, it's putting my content all the way to the left since it's left-aligned. I can center the header and footer with align:center or margin: 0 auto.
What can I do to prevent my content from going all the way to the left without giving anything a fixed width or using max-width (which I am using, but Outlook just ignores)?
Sounds like you are referring more to a "fluid" layout (basing off percentage) rather than a "responsive" one (where you would use media queries to specify styles based on width of display device).
Since setting a pixel value for the margin-left wouldn't make a lot of sense, why not set the margin-left to a percentage value?
margin-left: 4%;
Otherwise, you might want to take a look at the following resource found on MailChimp regarding media queries.
http://templates.mailchimp.com/development/media-queries/
Try this and use media queries to adjust the width percentages at different screen sizes if needed. Just keep in mind that your media queries won't take effect in these email clients.
</head>
<body style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF;" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#252525">
<tr>
<td align="center" style="padding-top:30px; padding-bottom:30px;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="10%">
</td>
<td align="left" width="80%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<br>content<br>...<br>
</td>
<td width="10%">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body></html>
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;}