[UPHPU] Table width

[Jonathan Grotegut]

Scott,

You can use the width attribute on your table and set it to a percentage.
ie  <table width=100%> which will make your table 100% of the browser
window.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#adef-width-TABLE

You can use the same attribute on the columns to auto size them.

Jonathan


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Scott Hill <llihttocs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> I need to construct an HTML table (for use with tabular data only of
> course)
> that will have a variable number of columns.  I want to adjust the width of
> the table depending on the width of the browser screen.  In other words, I
> don't want the user to have to scroll horizontally to see the right end of
> the table.  Instead I want to have a small drop down button in the top
> right
> corner that the user can click and see and/or select the remaining columns.
>  I have seen this done before but I can't remember where or how.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Other pertinent or interesting information.  I'm not using any kind of
> framework and I am open to any reasonable CSS or javascript solutions.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Scott Hill
>
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