I want to display 4 or 5 boxes(vary) which occupy's 100% of the page width, so it will span start to end of page. and want height just to fit contents.
I am trying to use table for that so it will assign width for each box and fill up whole row.
Problem with code below is all divs in td are centered and does not have same height. tried all i can think of but it doesn't work. tried vertical alignment, height to 100% .....
How can i have all div in td with same height?
Also if there is another way to doing same please let me know. I am html dummy so may not using the right thing.
<table style="width: 100%; text-align:justify;">
<tr>
<td>
<div style="margin-right:15px; background-color:Gray">
Some text here
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div style="margin-right: 15px; background-color:Gray">
column 2 text here
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div style="margin-right: 15px; background-color:Gray">
Column 3 text here
</div>
</td>
<td>
<div style="background-color:Gray">
Last column text here
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Like I've told plenty of other people, you shouldn't be using divisions inside table cells.
This will achieve the exact same effect, without the divisions:
<table style="width: 100%; text-align: justify;">
<tr>
<td style="margin-right: 15px; background-color: gray;">
Some text here
</td>
<td style="margin-right: 15px; background-color: gray;">
column 2 text here
</td>
<td style="margin-right: 15px; background-color: gray;">
Column 3 text here
</td>
<td style="background-color: gray;">
Last column text here
</td>
</tr>
</table>
If you get rid of the divs and apply your styles and content directly to the table cells you will get the effect you want.
In case there is no special purpose of using div tag inside td. I would just do it without div. add style to td tag.
Mamu, I would suggest that you do not use inline style elements. Instead of styling your table tags it would be far more efficient, and better to add the the following between your <head> tags:
<style type="text/css">
table {width:100%; text-align:justify;}
table td {margin-right:15px; background-color:gray;}
</style>
Using only those two lines of code you can apply the same elements consistently across your entire website. If you only wanted to apply them to some elements, you could create classes by adding a "." to a name of your choice:
<style type="text/css">
.MyTable {width:100%; text-align:justify;}
.MyTable td {margin-right:15px; background-color:gray;}
</style>
And add the following to your HTML:
<table class="MyTable">
Note that class names are case sensitive. But this reusable code is far more efficient.
Furthermore, I would urge to consider the use of tables only if you are presenting tabular data. Tables load slower and are not SEO friendly. It would not be semantically correct to use them for layout. You should separate content from presentation whenever possible, and if it is layout you are after I would suggest using divs and other elements instead.
Related
I'm trying to write some HTML/CSS to display a certain row with some of the elements left-aligned and some of them in the center. This was my HTML code:
<tr class="mainInfo" id="header">
<td> Item </td>
<td> Color </td>
<td> Size </td>
<div class="mid">
<td> Subtotal </td>
<td> Tax </td>
<td> Total </td>
</div>
</tr>
And this is my CSS code:
.mid {
text-align: center;
}
.mainInfo {
font: bold 13px Tahoma;
}
#header {
background-color: #68891;
color: white;
}
But the last three elements are not moving to the center, and I really don't understand why not. I tried putting class="mid" in the <td> tags and that worked, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of DRY?
Fiddle Demo
You cannot put a div instead of td element.
You should validate your HTML code with w3 validator.
If you'll do so you'll see you get this error message:
document type does not allow element "DIV" here; missing one of "TH", "TD" start-tag
Maybe you can do it this way:
<table>
<tr class="mainInfo" id="header">
<td> Item </td>
<td> Color </td>
<td> Size </td>
<td class="center">Subtotal</td>
<td class="center">Tax</td>
<td class="center">Total</td>
</tr>
</table>
JSFiddle example
No, you should not put divs inside tr's or tables.
And you should not use tr's or td's without table-element.
<table>
<tr>
<td>hello world</td>
<!-- This is bare minimum to use tables properly -->
</tr>
</table>
You can insert whatever(not tr or td, but could start new table) you want inside TD-elements though.
It's possible to use other elements to replace these standard ones with css display-property set to table-row etc., but you should stick to conventional tags.
Use colspan/rowspan to span over multiple table columns or rows.
CSS classes are designed to be used as often you need/want to. Only IDs should appear once per page.
Of course you should always keep the DRY concept in mind but in your case it's totally fine. It wouldn't if you would set your .mid class to every <td> because in that case you could just set the properties directly to the <td> element.
middle is not a valid value for text-align, so I'm going to assume, in your CSS, that's meant to be vertical-align. If so, it's because vertical-align will only apply to table cells, not divs - that would explain why it is only being successfully applied to your tds.
Additionally, you shouldn't really put a div inside a table (and shouldn't put a td inside of that) but that's not related to your problem.
Assign one class for left alignment and other for center like so...
.left {
text-align:left;
}
.center {
text-align:center;
}
Asign class to TD elements
<tr class="mainInfo" id="header">
<td class='left'> Item </td>
<td class='center'> Color </td>
</tr>
I have created a couple of tables. now i need both tables to be next to each other and not one table on top of each other. how can i position the second table next to the first one (to the right) but with sufficient space in between?
this is some code of my second table:
<table>
<h3>Personaldaten</h3>
<tr>
<td>Externe Referenz:</td>
<td colspan="2">
<input class="LargeText" type="text" style="width: 150%">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Titel:</td>
<td colspan="2">
<input class="LargeText" type="text" style="width: 150%">
</td>
</tr>
above are 2 entities from the first table, how do i proceed like this?
Try to use a wrapper around the tables and use float:left;
//margin: top right bottom left
<div style="width:500px; margin: 30px 0px 0px 320px">
<table style="width:240px; float:left; margin-right:20px;">
</table>
<table style="width:240px; float:left;">
</table>
</div>
get rid of your absolute positioning if you don't really need it and use CSS like
table{
float:left;
margin:0px 5px;
}
You have two choices really.
If you're happy creating your layout with tables, then put both of your tables within another table. i.e.
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<table>{ table 1 stuff }</table>
</td>
<td>
<table>{table 2 stuff }</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Or you can start looking into 'float'ing your elements.
You can create a new table with 1 row and 2 columns and place your first table inside the first column and your second table inside the second column.That way both tables can be displayed side by side
If it were me, I would surround your tables in a div layer, specifying the width and height of the div layer to force the tables next to each other.
For example:
<div id="tablecontainer">
<table id="lefttable"></table>
<table id="righttable"></table>
</div>
And in the CSS:
table
{
margin: 5px;
}
#lefttable
{
float: left;
}
Obviously, this code isn't going to be exactly what OP wants, but you get the idea.
Either use float: left or display: inline-block.
#1:
table {
margin: 10px;
float: left
}
#2:
table {
margin: 10px;
display: inline-block
}
See http://shaquin.tk/experiments/tables2.html and http://shaquin.tk/experiments/tables3.html.
First, fix the syntax and styling. A table element cannot have an h3 child. Either put the h3 inside a cell (which is inside a tr), or turn it to a caption. Don’t set a width of 150%, as this would make the a cell occupy 150% of the width of the available space. The width of an input field set is best set in characters, using the size attribute in HTML.
Then you can float the tables in CSS as suggested in other answers, or by using align=left in table tags. To create horizontal spacing between the tables, you can set e.g. margin-right on the first table.
Note that for usability and accessibility, forms should normally be presented so that there is one input item with its label on one line, so that filling out the form proceeds vertically in a simple manner. So you might be solving the wrong problem.
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;">
When you create a basic HTML table everything seems to stay in center of the table. I don't want this how can i stop this from happening?
I wish to use a 2 column html table one for column for a sidebar one for content. Because i have so much content the sidebar text (which is little) gos to the middle of column.
How do i align the text to stay to the top left of the columns?
In the <td> element that contains the lefthand sidebar, try specifying a style that aligns text to the top:
<td style="vertical-align: top">(Sidebar HTML code here)</td>
You can control the alignment of columns directly in your markup by using:
<td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"></td>
or even just
<td align="left"></td>
This will work fine for a 2-column table, but Piccolomomo has the better plan if you are going to use it a lot. This might help you further if you need it:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
You can use CSS to change text aligning inside your table:
td {
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
}
For aligning text in table you have to use css.Without css or any style sheet you can't make them align.So you can use inline css or external css for that.
<style type="text/css">
table td{
text-align:left;
vertical-align:top;
}
</style>
<table>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left">
Side Bar
</td>
<td>
Content
</td>
</tr>
</table>