Table

Hello,

I have a table with 3 columns and I am using the usual header, footer
and body sections.

The first column has only an input (check box).

Is it possible to make column 1 and 3 fixed width and column 2 get the
remaining width?

Thank You,
Miguel

On 2008-02-29, shapper <mdmoura (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

I have a table with 3 columns and I am using the usual header, footer
and body sections.

The first column has only an input (check box).

Is it possible to make column 1 and 3 fixed width and column 2 get the
remaining width?

Yes. Just set the total width you want on the whole table (which might
be a percentage), and then set the fixed widths you want on cells in
columns 1 and 3.

On Feb 29, 10:29 pm, Ben C <spams... (AT) spam (DOT) eggs> wrote:

On 2008-02-29, shapper <mdmo... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

I have a table with 3 columns and I am using the usual header, footer
and body sections.

The first column has only an input (check box).

Is it possible to make column 1 and 3 fixed width and column 2 get the
remaining width?

Yes. Just set the total width you want on the whole table (which might
be a percentage), and then set the fixed widths you want on cells in
columns 1 and 3.

Ben,

You mean in tbody cells? td?
I am asking because I added col tags to the table and defined the
widths in it but it does not work.

I was reading about cols and it seemed the logical solution.

Thanks,
Miguel

On 2008-03-02, shapper <mdmoura (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

On Feb 29, 10:29 pm, Ben C <spams... (AT) spam (DOT) eggs> wrote:
On 2008-02-29, shapper <mdmo... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

I have a table with 3 columns and I am using the usual header, footer
and body sections.

The first column has only an input (check box).

Is it possible to make column 1 and 3 fixed width and column 2 get the
remaining width?

Yes. Just set the total width you want on the whole table (which might
be a percentage), and then set the fixed widths you want on cells in
columns 1 and 3.

Ben,

You mean in tbody cells? td?
I am asking because I added col tags to the table and defined the
widths in it but it does not work.

I was reading about cols and it seemed the logical solution.

To set the width of a column you just set width on any (non-colspanning)
<td> in that column.

Setting different widths on <td>s in the same column is illogical since
all the cells in a column will always have the same width. If you do
that most browsers will assume the maximum of the widths you set in a
column is the one you want.

Don't bother with col or colgroup elements. I don't think they work in
Firefox. They're a bit of a throwback to the days before CSS as a crude
way to apply presentation to multiple elements at once (CSS selectors do
that job nowadays).