Re: Specifying the width of table cells

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At 07:01 AM 13/07/97 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>At 3:13p +0200 07/13/97, Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet wrote:
> >
> > I've always wondered why you'd want to set the width of
> > *one* cell in a column. I can understand HEIGHT on a TR,
> > but should WIDTH on, say, the last TD in a column apply
> > to all earlier cells in that column too? That would
> > require that the entire table is redrawn.
>
>The reason you'd want to set the width of *one* cell in a column:
>
>Browser A:
>
>   /------------ Browser Window A ------------\
>   <table width="100%">
>   +--------------+---------------------------+
>   | TD width=120 |                           |
>   +--------------+---------------------------+
>
>Browser B:
>
>   /--------------------- Browser Window B ---------------------\
>   <table width="100%">
>   +--------------+---------------------------------------------+
>   | TD width=120 |                                             |
>   +--------------+---------------------------------------------+
>
>This allows the table to be scalable to different browser widths,
>something I consider of *extreme* importance.

Aren't you intending to set the width of the column instead of the width 
of a single cell?

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Received on Sunday, 13 July 1997 12:17:02 UTC