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Владимир Романов
Владимир Романов

Reputation: 363

How can I make table column widths fixed?

I have a table with two columns, first column 65%, second 35%. It perfectly fits to 100% of screen, if first column has enough text in it to fill that 65%, but if it is empty (or small amount of text) - then first column shrinks and second expands.

How can I make first column ALWAYS 65% of screen, with or without text?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4192

Answers (4)

Srinivas
Srinivas

Reputation: 1063

try this css :

.table {
      table-layout: fixed;
      border-collapse: collapse;
      width: 100%;
    }

    .td1 {
      border: 1px solid #000;
      width: 65%;
    }

    .td2{border: 1px solid #000;
      width: 35%;
    }

and

<table class="table">
    <tr>
        <td class="td1">data</td>
        <td class="td2">data</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Upvotes: 0

Kevin Boucher
Kevin Boucher

Reputation: 16685

Try adding this CSS:

table {
    table-layout: fixed;
    empty-cells: show;
}

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/empty-cells

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/table-layout

@kalpesh's recommendation for <colgroup> is a good one too.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/colgroup

Upvotes: 0

Kalpesh Patel
Kalpesh Patel

Reputation: 2822

Try this:

<table class="fixed_width">
    <col width="65%" />
    <col width="35%" />
    <tr>
        <td>your data</td>
        <td>your data</td>
    </tr>
</table>

And CSS:

table.fixed_width { table-layout:fixed; }
table.fixed_width td { overflow: hidden; }

Upvotes: 2

Andrew Wei
Andrew Wei

Reputation: 2100

<table>
    <tr>
        <td style="width: 65%;">
            first column
        </td>
        <td style="width: 35%;">
            second column
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

The first column will always stay 65% unless, you put something inside that is larger then 65% (a large picture for example)

Upvotes: 0

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