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vitorsdcs

Reputation: 692

Fixed width table cell

I'm trying to make cells have a fixed (in px) width within a table.

This is what I have now:

        <table style="border: 1px solid black; width: 1128px; table-layout: fixed;">
            <tbody>
              <tr>
                <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0 0 red; width: 4px;">Row 1 Col 1</td>
                <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0 0 red; width: 4px;">Row 1 Col 2</td>
                <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0 0 red; width: 4px;">Row 1 Col 3</td>
              </tr>
            </tbody>
        </table>

However, none of the table-cells are 4px wide. What am I missing?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3398

Answers (2)

Duncan
Duncan

Reputation: 1550

Well, you can add buffer cells...

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/YGRGG/

HTML

<table>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Row 1 Col 1</td>
            <td></td>
            <td>Row 1 Col 2</td>
            <td></td>
            <td>Row 1 Col 3</td>
            <td></td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

CSS

table {
    border: 1px solid black;
    width: 1128px;
}
table td:nth-of-type(2),
table td:nth-of-type(4),
table td:nth-of-type(6) {
    width:4px;
}

Upvotes: 0

kol
kol

Reputation: 28688

You can add a 4th <td> tag, with no width specified:

<table style="border: 1px solid black; width: 1128px; table-layout: fixed;">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0 0 red; width: 4px;">Row 1 Col 1</td>
            <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0 0 red; width: 4px;">Row 1 Col 2</td>
            <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0 0 red; width: 4px;">Row 1 Col 3</td>
            <td></td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

See the result here. The width of the first three cells is 4px, and the 4th, empty cell fills up the remaining width of the table.

Upvotes: 3

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