[html] Table overflowing outside of div

I'm trying to stop a table that has width explicitly declared from overflowing outside of its parent div. I presume I can do this in some way using max-width, but I can't seem to get this working.

The following code (with a very small window) will cause this:

<style type="text/css">
  #middlecol {
    width: 45%;
    border-right:2px solid red;
  }
  #middlecol table {
    max-width:100% !important;
  }
</style>

<div id="middlecol">
  <center>
    <table width="400" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center">
      <tr>
        <td bgcolor="#DDFFFF" align="center" colspan="2">
          <strong>Notification!</strong>
        </td>
      <tr>
        <td width="50">
          <img src="http://www.example.com/img.png" width="50" height="50" alt="" border="0">
        </td>
        <td>
          Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </center>
 </div>

The red line is the right border of the div, and if you make your browser window small, you'll see that the table doesn't fit into it.

I tried almost all of above but did not work for me ... The following did

word-break: break-all;

This to be added on the parent div (container of the table .)

A crude work around is to set display: table on the containing div.

You may try this CSS. I have experienced it working always.

div {
  border-style: solid;
  padding: 5px;
}

table {
  width: 100%;
  word-break: break-all;
  border-style: solid;
}

<div style="width:200px;">
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Col 1</th>
      <th>Col 2</th>
      <th>Col 3</th>
      <th>Col 4</th>
      <th>Col 5</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>data 1</td>
      <td>data 2</td>
      <td>data 3</td>
      <td>data 4</td>
      <td>data 5</td>
    </tr>
    <table>
</div>

There's a width="400" on the table, remove it and it will work...

overflow-x: auto;
overflow-y : hidden;

Apply the styling above to the parent div.

You can prevent tables from expanding beyond their parent div by using table-layout:fixed.

The CSS below will make your tables expand to the width of the div surrounding it.

table 
{
    table-layout:fixed;
    width:100%;
}

I found this trick here.

I tried all the solutions mentioned above, then did not work. I have 3 tables one below the other. The last one over flowed. I fixed it using:

/* Grid Definition */
table {
    word-break: break-word;
}

For IE11 in edge mode, you need to set this to word-break:break-all

At first I used James Lawruk's method. This however changed all the widths of the td's.

The solution for me was to use white-space: normal on the columns (which was set to white-space: nowrap). This way the text will always break. Using word-wrap: break-word will ensure that everything will break when needed, even halfway through a word.

The CSS will look like this then:

td, th {
    white-space: normal; /* Only needed when it's set differntly somewhere else */
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

This might not always be the desirable solution, as word-wrap: break-word might make your words in the table illegible. It will however keep your table the right width.