A lot of people still use tables to layout controls, data etc. - one example of this is the popular jqGrid. However, there is some magic happening that I cant seem to fathom (its tables for crying out loud, how much magic could there possibly be?)
How is it possible to set a table's column width and have it obeyed like jqGrid does!? If I try to replicate this, even if I set every <td style='width: 20px'>
, as soon as the content of one of those cells is greater than 20px, the cell expands!
Any ideas or insights?
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html
css
layout
html-table
table td
{
table-layout:fixed;
width:20px;
overflow:hidden;
word-wrap:break-word;
}
Now in HTML5/CSS3 we have better solution for the problem. In my opinion this purely CSS solution is recommended:
table.fixed {table-layout:fixed; width:90px;}/*Setting the table width is important!*/_x000D_
table.fixed td {overflow:hidden;}/*Hide text outside the cell.*/_x000D_
table.fixed td:nth-of-type(1) {width:20px;}/*Setting the width of column 1.*/_x000D_
table.fixed td:nth-of-type(2) {width:30px;}/*Setting the width of column 2.*/_x000D_
table.fixed td:nth-of-type(3) {width:40px;}/*Setting the width of column 3.*/
_x000D_
<table class="fixed">_x000D_
<tr>_x000D_
<td>Veryverylongtext</td>_x000D_
<td>Actuallythistextismuchlongeeeeeer</td>_x000D_
<td>We should use spaces tooooooooooooo</td>_x000D_
</tr>_x000D_
</table>
_x000D_
You need to set the table's width
even in haunter's solution. Otherwise it doesn't work.
Also a new CSS3 feature that vsync suggested is: word-break:break-all;
. This will break the words without spaces in them to multiple lines too. Just modify the code like this:
table.fixed { table-layout:fixed; width:90px; word-break:break-all;}
table {
table-layout:fixed; width:200px;
}
table tr {
height: 20px;
}
10x10
table
{
table-layout:fixed;
}
td,th
{
width:20px;
word-wrap:break-word;
}
:first-child ... :nth-child(1) or ...
I had one long table td cell, this forced the table to the edges of the browser and looked ugly. I just wanted that column to be fixed size only and break the words when it reaches the specified width. So this worked well for me:
<td><div style='width: 150px;'>Text to break here</div></td>
You don't need to specify any kind of style to table, tr elements. You may also use overflow:hidden; as suggested by other answers but it causes for the excess text to disappear.
for FULLSCREEN width table:
table width MUST be 100%
if need N colunms, then THs MUST be N+1
example for 3 columns:
table.fixed {_x000D_
table-layout: fixed;_x000D_
width: 100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
table.fixed td {_x000D_
overflow: hidden;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<table class="fixed">_x000D_
<col width=20 />_x000D_
<col width=20 />_x000D_
<col width=20 />_x000D_
<tr>_x000D_
<th>1</th>_x000D_
<th>2</th>_x000D_
<th>3</th>_x000D_
<th>FREE</th>_x000D_
</tr>_x000D_
<tr>_x000D_
<td>text111111111</td>_x000D_
<td>text222222222</td>_x000D_
<td>text3333333</td>_x000D_
</tr>_x000D_
</table>
_x000D_
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