I need to create a chat layout that uses all the available space and scales nicely, but has few fixed sizes.
Here's the structure:
<table style="width: 100%; height: 100%">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td style="width: 200px; background: red;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="height: 100px; background: blue"></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
However, I want to place a lot of content in the first table cell and I want it to scroll, so it won't expand the table.
Is it possible to make it overflow properly, without having a fixed height for the cell? Simply adding overflow: auto doesn't seem to work.
PS. I hate tables, but can't figure out a very clean and cross-browser way to do a layout like this with divs and css. If someone can come up with one, I'll gladly use it.
One way to achieve is use put all content in div element and set div overflow property to auto
<table style="width: 100%; height: 100%">
<tr>
<td>
<div style="overflow:auto;">
//your contain
</div>
</td>
<td style="width: 200px; background: red;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="height: 100px; background: blue"></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
An alternative if your content shouldn't actually even be in a table is to use a CSS grid system, such as 960.gs or Nicole Sullivan's "OO-CSS".
You'd want to divide a container into however many grids you needed and these lend themselves much better to CSS decoration. They're much more flexible and simple to use.
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First, I'm new to mobile development, so apologies in advance for what might be a simple question. But I've researched this for a couple of days and just can't seem to get it to work.
I can't get a particular DIV to render at the appropriate height when I switch to a mobile view. All the other divs work fine in both desktop and mobile. The div in question looks fine in the desktop view but not in mobile.
Here's a link to the page: http://echoflyfishing.com/2016
The div in question is the "DOUBLE HAND". I want it the same height as the "SINGLE HAND" above it. No matter what I do, I can't get it to size correctly. I know there's a simple solution but I've tried everything I can think of in terms of height and am stumped.
Here's the relevant HTML:
<div class="sh_container_m">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="sh_container_table_m">
<tr>
<td style="font-size: 3.5vw;padding-top: 2vw; padding-bottom: 2vw;"><p>Single Hand</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div class="sh_images_container_m">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>This is where the single hand image carousel will be</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div class="dh_container_m">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="dh_container_table_m">
<tr>
<td style="font-size: 3.5vw;"><p>Double Hand</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div class="dh_images_container_m">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>This is where the double hand image carousel will be</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
And the CSS:
.dh_container_m
{
display: block;
visibility: hidden;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100vw;
text-align: center;
}
.dh_container_table_m
{
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100vw;
border: none;
background-color: #fbaa27 !important;
}
Did you mean for your dh_images_container_m div to be nested inside the sh_images_container_m div? It is going to take on it's "parents" properties which may also be contributing to some of your sizing issues.
On a side note, you have your links to the css files in the header as type="text". They should be type="css/text".
use px not vw because it's percentage and define the width of both divs as you want simple one more suggestion is use bootstrap css framework it's better for you you can make responsive site easily with the help of it.
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 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 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;">
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