Basics for making a Firefox div contain contents wider than port

I am frequently doing something like the following:

<div style="width:95%; padding:10px;margin:5px;">
<table>Contents include stuff that won't compress beyond a certain
point.</table>
</div>

In IE6, either mode, as the port shrinks to less than the width of the
table, either through a small screen size or shrinking the browser
window, the right edge of the div maintains its 10px padding with the
table. But in FF, as the port shrinks, the <div> shrinks with it,
leaving the table extending outside the div.

I'm guessing this is an IE non-standards-based feature, but it is
darned useful. Suggestions appreciated... got to be a common issue.
I'm hack-literate... just need to know the trick.

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:19:51 +0200, Alan <agatlbridge (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

I am frequently doing something like the following:

div style="width:95%; padding:10px;margin:5px;"
table>Contents include stuff that won't compress beyond a certain
point.</table
/div

In IE6, either mode, as the port shrinks to less than the width of the
table, either through a small screen size or shrinking the browser
window, the right edge of the div maintains its 10px padding with the
table. But in FF, as the port shrinks, the <div> shrinks with it,
leaving the table extending outside the div.

I'm guessing this is an IE non-standards-based feature, but it is
darned useful. Suggestions appreciated... got to be a common issue.
I'm hack-literate... just need to know the trick.

Specify 'min-width' instead of 'width'. This isn't supported by MSIE
though, so you might have to use a hack to give MSIE 6 the 'width'
property and modern browsers the 'min-width' property.

Something like this:

div {
width: 95%;
min-width: 95%;}

html>body div {width: auto;} /* reset 'width' property to automatic for
Opera and FF etc*/

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Tx... min-width solved the FF problem, and IE was already fine, since
in effect it imposes a min-width equal to the width of the contents.