Table with 100% width with equal size columns

If you don't know how many columns you are going to have, the declaration

table-layout: fixed

along with not setting any column widths, would imply that browsers divide the total width evenly - no matter what.

That can also be the problem with this approach, if you use this, you should also consider how overflow is to be handled.


Just add style="table-layout: fixed ; width: 100%;" inside <table> tag and also if you do not specify any styles and add just style=" width: 100%;" inside <table> You will be able to resolve it.


<table width="400px">
  <tr>
  <td width="100px"></td>
  <td width="100px"></td>
  <td width="100px"></td>
  <td width="100px"></td>
  </tr>
</table>

For variable number of columns use %

<table width="100%">
  <tr>
  <td width="(100/x)%"></td>
  </tr>
</table>

where 'x' is number of columns


ALL YOU HAVE TO DO:

HTML:

<table id="my-table"><tr>
<td> CELL 1 With a lot of text in it</td>
<td> CELL 2 </td>
<td> CELL 3 </td>
<td> CELL 4 With a lot of text in it </td>
<td> CELL 5 </td>
</tr></table>

CSS:

#my-table{width:100%;} /*or whatever width you want*/
#my-table td{width:2000px;} /*something big*/

if you have th you need to set it too like this:

#my-table th{width:2000px;}

Tags:

Html

Css