HTML/CSS/CSS Attributes and Javascript Style Properties/table layout
table-layout: auto
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title> My favorite records </title>
<style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
table {
border: thin solid black;
table-layout: auto;
}
th, tfoot td {
border: thin solid black;
text-align: center;
font-weight: bold;
}
tbody td {
font-size: 120%;
}
caption {
font-size: 90%;
text-align: right;
}
td, th, caption {
padding: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<caption>
Table: My favorite records.
</caption>
<colgroup>
<col/>
<col/>
<col/>
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> R</td>
<td> T</td>
<td> 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> B</td>
<td> V</td>
<td> 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Q</td>
<td> Q</td>
<td> 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> M</td>
<td> T</td>
<td> 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>Column 1</td>
<td>Column 2</td>
<td>Column 3</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>
</body>
</html>
"table-layout" Example
<html>
<body>
<table style="table-layout:fixed" width="400">
<col width="150">
<col width="400">
<col width="200">
<thead height="20">
<tr>
<th>150px wide column</th>
<th>400px wide column</th>
<th>200px wide column</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr height="20">
<td>Cell 1 content</td>
<td>Cell 2 content</td>
<td>Cell 3 content</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
table-layout: fixed and width 100%
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title> My favorite records </title>
<style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
table {
width: 100%;
border: thin solid black;
table-layout: fixed;
}
th, tfoot td {
border: thin solid black;
text-align: center;
font-weight: bold;
}
tbody td {
font-size: 120%;
}
caption {
font-size: 90%;
text-align: right;
}
td, th, caption {
padding: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<caption>
Table: My favorite records.
</caption>
<colgroup>
<col/>
<col/>
<col/>
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column 1</th>
<th>Column 2</th>
<th>Column 3</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>Column 1</td>
<td>Column 2</td>
<td>Column 3</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>
</body>
</html>