Width Irritation

asearle · October 11th, 2007, 06:04 AM

Hi everyone,

I have a table which, in order to line up with other information, needs to have very exact column widths.

So far I have implemented the following with normal HTML tables ...

<td align="RIGHT" width="77">

... which works OK most of the time.

However, sometimes the data contained in the table overshoots the column width and the table starts to 'distort'.

So my question is whether there is a way to make the column widths 'absolute' thereby suppressing any changes caused by querks in the data?

Maybe this has something to do with the declared table width ...

<TABLE width="999" border="1" ALIGN="LEFT">

... or should I leave out a declared table width when the colum widths are specifically declared?

Many thanks for any tips you can give me.

Regards,
Alan Searle

iamrakesh22 · October 26th, 2007, 07:17 AM

Default the text insied the table will get wrapped. Only exemption is when there is a text without any space between it and it is large enough to occupy the complete width of the window then the table gets stretched. There is no solution for this as far as i know. Only thing you can do is write some code which will check for this special case and inserts a line break [br tag] after few characters so that the text forcibly gets to next line.

Hope it solves your problem.

- Rakesh

chroniclemaster1 · October 30th, 2007, 02:13 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by rakesh_mscit
Default the text insied the table will get wrapped. Only exemption is when there is a text without any space between it and it is large enough to occupy the complete width of the window then the table gets stretched. There is no solution for this as far as i know. Only thing you can do is write some code which will check for this special case and inserts a line break [br tag] after few characters so that the text forcibly gets to next line.

Actually there is a simpler solution with CSS. Include a style rule for your table cells

td {
overflow:auto;
}

If the contents of the table cell, overflow the available content, it will add scrollbars. Scrollbars in this context frequently don't look great, but if the alternative is blasting a hard-won design then it's a good trade off. The nice thing is that, if the content doesn't overflow, auto will NOT introduce scrollbars; they're only added if necessary.

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