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Re: cells with fixed width

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Hegyvari Krisztian wrote:

><table><tr><td width="30">cell-content</td></tr></table>
>
>If the cell-content does not fit into the specified width, the browser is going
to
>render the cell by incrementing the specified width. Can I turn it the other
way round, can I tell the browser to stick to the width and cut the cell-content
instead? I do not care if half of the content will not appear.

Sounds like an application for max-width.

Sampo Syreeni <decoy@...>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university




Wed Jan 17, 2001 10:52 am

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Greetings, I experience the following: <table><tr><td width="30">cell-content</td></tr></table> If the cell-content does not fit into the specified width, the...
Hegyvari Krisztian
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Jan 16, 2001
4:51 pm

one way to do this would be to wrap the content in a DIV and set the overflow property of the div....
Steve Clark
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Jan 16, 2001
6:08 pm

... Yes. Give the <table> element the style "table-layout: fixed". (Usual disclaimer applies, ie. "won't work in Netscape 4".) Followups probably best sent to...
Clover Andrew
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Jan 17, 2001
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... Sounds like an application for max-width. Sampo Syreeni <decoy@...>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university...
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Jan 17, 2001
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