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frosty
frosty

Reputation: 2669

Setting the maximum width of a table

I'm trying to set the maximum width of a table, but it doesn't seem to be working. If a word inside the table is too long, it automatically expands the width of the table. How do I stop that from happening, and instead have the word that's too long go to the next line?

<style>table {
  max-width: 300px;
}

table,
td {
  border: 1px solid red;
}

div {
  border: 1px solid blue;
  word-wrap: break-word;
}

</style>
<table>

  <tr>
    <td>
      <div> hellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohello
      </div>
    </td>
  </tr>

</table>

Upvotes: 10

Views: 29744

Answers (4)

Cortez Nix
Cortez Nix

Reputation: 121

Putting max-width inside the div solves the problem.

<style>
table,td {
border: 1px solid red;
}
div {
border: 1px solid blue;
word-wrap: break-word;
max-width: 300px;
}
</style>
<table>

<tr>
<td>
<div> hellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohello </div>
</td>
</tr>

</table>

Upvotes: 0

th7nder
th7nder

Reputation: 192

If you want to make your max-width to work, you need to set the CSS property table-layout: fixed; on the table and use width, not max-width.

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

Upvotes: 16

Unitrai
Unitrai

Reputation: 296

word-wrap: break-word; will work if you have width assigned to the container, you are applying this property to. Thus, you will have to assign width:100px; or desired width to div tag. 

<style type="text/css">
    div {
         width: 100px; /* this will limit the length of the word to 100px */
         border: 1px solid blue;
         word-wrap: break-word;
        }
</style>

Upvotes: 0

selami
selami

Reputation: 2498

Add the following rule your css section. 

div{
    overflow-wrap: break-word;
    max-width: 300px;

Upvotes: 0

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