Widths: Fixed vs percentage

I have a table like the following, with a cell that I need to be a
fixed width/height to accommodate its background image.

I want the other cell to take up all of the *remaining* width. However
width:100% seems to use all the width before allocating space for the
fixed width cell.

Is there a way to specify a percentage of the remaining width after
all the fixed width cells have been drawn?

(I know in this simple example it's easier just to say width:84px for
the second cell, but in real life I won't always know the exact width
of the container)

Thanks for any ideas.

<table style="width:100px">
<tr style="height:20px;">
<td style="width:16px;background-color:red"></td>
<td style="width:100%;background-color:green"></td>
</tr>
</table>

On 2009-01-14, Mark Smith wrote:

I have a table like the following, with a cell that I need to be a
fixed width/height to accommodate its background image.

I want the other cell to take up all of the *remaining* width. However
width:100% seems to use all the width before allocating space for the
fixed width cell.

Is there a way to specify a percentage of the remaining width after
all the fixed width cells have been drawn?

(I know in this simple example it's easier just to say width:84px for
the second cell, but in real life I won't always know the exact width
of the container)

Thanks for any ideas.

table style="width:100px"
tr style="height:20px;"
td style="width:16px;background-color:red"></td
td style="width:100%;background-color:green"></td
/tr
/table

<table style="width:100%">
<tr style="height:20px;">
<td style="width:16px;background-color:red"></td>
<td style="background-color:green"></td>
</tr>
</table>

Note, however, that 20px may not be high enough to contain any
text.

--
Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
================================================== =================
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

On Jan 14, 12:36*pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn... (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

On 2009-01-14, Mark Smith wrote:



I have a table like the following, with a cell that I need to be a
fixed width/height to accommodate its background image.

I want the other cell to take up all of the *remaining* width. However
width:100% seems to use all the width before allocating space for the
fixed width cell.

Is there a way to specify a percentage of the remaining width after
all the fixed width cells have been drawn?

(I know in this simple example it's easier just to say width:84px for
the second cell, but in real life I won't always know the exact width
of the container)

Thanks for any ideas.

table style="width:100px"
tr style="height:20px;"
td style="width:16px;background-color:red"></td
td style="width:100%;background-color:green"></td
/tr
/table

table style="width:100%"
* <tr style="height:20px;"
* * <td style="width:16px;background-color:red"></td
* * <td style="background-color:green"></td
* </tr
/table

* *Note, however, that 20px may not be high enough to contain any
* *text.

--
* *Chris F.A. Johnson * * * * * * * * * * *<http://cfaj.freeshell.org
* *================================================= ==================
* *Author:
* *Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Thanks, looks good now.