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I've got HTML code like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<table style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td>
<table style="width:100%; max-width:1000px; background:#000099;">
<tr>
<td>
001
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The problem is that Chrome and Safari are ignoring "max-width:1000px"
My friend has found that we can prevent it by adding "display:block" for the inner table, and it's somehow working.
So, what I want to know is - are there any other ways of solving this problem and why is this happening?
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max-width overrides width , but min-width overrides max-width .
Using width attribute: The <td> tag has width attribute to control the width of a particular column. By assigning a numeric value to this attribute between 0 to 100 in terms of percentage(or you can use pixel format). We can restrict the column width up to that much percentage of the table's total width.
max-width: ***; min-width: ***; The max-width property specifies the maximum width of an element, and the min-width property specifies the minimum width of an element. The maximum width and minimum width of the table can be specified by applying these properties to the TABLE element.
Max-width applies to block elements. <table> is neither block nor inline. Ambiguous enough? haha. You can use display:block; max-width:1000px and forget about width:100%. Chrome and Safari follow the rules!
Edit May 2017: please note, this comment was made 7 years ago (in 2010!). I suspect browsers have changed a bunch over the years (I wouldn't know, I no longer do web design). I recommend using a more recent solution.
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I know this has been answered for a while and with a working workaround, but the answer stating that max-width only applies to block elements and citing a source that's not the spec is completely incorrect.
The spec (the CSS 3 spec for CSS Intrinsic & Extrinsic Sizing refers to the CSS 2.1 spec on this rule) clearly states:
all elements but non-replaced inline elements, table rows, and row groups
which would mean it should apply to table elements.
It means that WebKit's behavior of not honoring max-width or min-width on table elements is incorrect.
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Wrap inner table with div and set max-width to this wrapping div.
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I think what you're looking for here is:
table-layout: fixed
Apply this style to the table and your table will respect the width you assign to it.
Note: Applying this style directly in Chrome will look like it is not working. You need to apply the style in your CSS / HTML file and refresh the page.
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I had the same issue. I used a table as a means to center my content on the page, but safari ignored width:100%; max-width:1200px as a style I applied to the table. I learned that if I wrap the table in a div and set left and right margins on auto on the div, it would center on the page and obey the max and min width attributes in safari and firefox on the mac. I have yet to check explorer or chrome on windows. Here is an example:
<div style="position:relative; width:100%; max-width:1200px; min-width:800px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto">
Then I nested the table inside the div...
<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
I just came across this answer and it is worth noting that according to MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/max-width), their compatibility table for max-width says:
| Feature | Chrome | Firefox (Gecko) | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari (WebKit) |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|applies to <table> [1]| Not supported | (Yes) | Not supported | (Yes) | Not supported |
"[1] CSS 2.1 explicitly leaves the behavior of max-width with undefined. Therefore any behavior is CSS2.1-compliant; newer CSS specifications may define this behavior, so Web developers shouldn't rely on a specific one now."
There is some cool stuff on MDN though such as "fill-available" and "fit-content" - we have some things to look forward to when the spec stabilises and is explicit on this front...
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