Set a table columns width

**Rain Lover** · 03-09-2012, 06:12 PM

Hi,

I tried to do it by adjusting the <td> width:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
div {width:100%; overflow:auto;}
table, td {border:1px solid #000;}
td {width:1000px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td>First cell</td>
<td>Second cell</td>
<td>Third cell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Forth cell</td>
<td>Fifth cell</td>
<td>Sixth cell</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

But it didn't work.

Many thanks for any help!
Mike

**coothead** · 03-09-2012, 08:12 PM

Hi there Rain Lover,

if you check the table offsetWidth with javascript, you will see that it has a width of 3022px.

Setting the div container width to 100% is pointless as that is it's default width.

It must be set to the table width.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
div {width:3022px;}
table, td {border:1px solid #000;}
td {width:1000px;}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">


function init(){
   alert('overall table width='
   +document.getElementsByTagName('table')[0].offsetWidth+'px');
 }
   window.addEventListener?
   window.addEventListener('load',init,false):
   window.attachEvent('onload',init);
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td>First cell</td>
<td>Second cell</td>
<td>Third cell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Forth cell</td>
<td>Fifth cell</td>
<td>Sixth cell</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

coothead

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