Width property

I was viewing some HTML codes and withing the TABLE tag was 'width=100%' (or
some other figure). What does the width property do?

<table width="100%"> tells the table to have a width of 100% of the screen
<table width="90%"> would then be a table that is 90% of the screen
<table width="780"> would be a table that is 780px wide

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Brett
Provision Tech
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"JonWayn" <jongunn (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net> wrote

I was viewing some HTML codes and withing the TABLE tag was 'width=100%'
(or
some other figure). What does the width property do?

"Brett" <news (AT) provisiontech (DOT) net> wrote in
news:vsb6h7p3mh2rfd (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com:

table width="100%"> tells the table to have a width of 100% of the
screen

Nope. 100% of the browser viewport, which can never exceed the size of the
screen, and will almost always be smaller than it (even if the browser is
maximized, there will usually be things like window borders and
scrollbars).

"JonWayn" <jongunn (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net> wrote

I was viewing some HTML codes and withing the TABLE tag was 'width=100%' (or
some other figure). What does the width property do?

sets the width of the table!

"Eric Bohlman" <ebohlman (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote

"Brett" <news (AT) provisiontech (DOT) net> wrote in
news:vsb6h7p3mh2rfd (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com:

table width="100%"> tells the table to have a width of 100% of the
screen

Nope. 100% of the browser viewport, which can never exceed the size of the
screen, and will almost always be smaller than it (even if the browser is
maximized, there will usually be things like window borders and
scrollbars).

I belive the max width of a viewable area of screen at say 800x 600 is 780 or

there abouts (perhaps 778px)

778 px of 800px width (due to 22px taken up by scroll bar).