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I want to create a table which look like this:
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|January 12th, 2012 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| x | first item | second item |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| x | first item | second item |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|January 13th, 2012 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| x | first item | second item |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| x | first item | second item |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
but what I get is this:
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|January 12th, 2012 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| x | first item | second item |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| x | first item | second item |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
|January 13th, 2012 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| x | first item | second item |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| x | first item | second item |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
The 'x' is actually an image an has a fixed width. I want to force the first cell to only be as wide as the image.
Here is a sample:
<html>
<body>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">January 12th 2011 this here is just for padding to make table wider</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20"> x </td>
<td>First item</td>
<td>Second item</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
It seems that the row containing the TD with colspan=3 is causing the TD in the other rows to ignore the width attribute (I also tried using style width:20px)
The rendering is correct in FF8. Any ideas how do I get IE to render the table in the way I want?
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The colspan attribute defines the number of columns a cell should span.
By using CSS, the styling of HTML elements is easy to modify. To fix the width of td tag the nth-child CSS is used to set the property of specific columns(determined by the value of n) in each row of the table.
The colspan attribute in HTML specifies the number of columns a cell should span. It allows the single table cell to span the width of more than one cell or column. It provides the same functionality as “merge cell” in a spreadsheet program like Excel.
Of course, you can mix colspan and rowspan to get a range of various tables. Example 4-13 demonstrates a mix of column and row spanning.
As found in this answer you can set attributes for the entire table via colgroup and col. That way you are able to set individual attributes even for the (invisible single) cells inside the colspan in the first row.
In your example it would be:
<table>
<colgroup>
<col width="20" />
<col />
<col />
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">January 12th 2011 this here is just for padding to make table wider</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> x </td>
<td>First item</td>
<td>Second item</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Here's a fiddle
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I had forgotten that the table has the style 'table-layout: fixed' and this was causing the difficulty. When this style is set the widths of the cells in the first row are applied to all following rows. As the first row contained a colspan I guess IE got confused (FF handles it ok).
Any way it's not as flexible as I wanted but this worked for me.
<html>
<body>
<div style="width:350px; border:blue 1px solid">
<table border="0" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:10pt;table-layout:fixed;">
<tr>
<td style="width:17px;"/>
<td style="width:20px;"/>
<td style="width:180px;"/>
<td style="width:130px;"/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" style="width:100%;text-align:center;font-eight:bold;background-color:#eef;">09 January 2012</td>
</tr>
<tr title="09 January 2012">
<td align="center" valign="middle" colspan="1" style="width:17px;height:1.1em;"><img src="../../../../_layouts/images/WebParts2010/AWT3_Klein.png" style="border-style:None;border-width:0px;height:1.1em;width:1.1em;" /></td>
<td align="left" valign="top" colspan="1" style="width:20px;height:1.1em;text-overflow:ellipsis;overflow:hidden;white-space:nowrap;">LO</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" colspan="1" style="width:180px;height:1.1em;text-overflow:ellipsis;overflow:hidden;white-space:nowrap;">Customer Name Ltd.</td>
<td align="left" valign="top" colspan="1" style="width:120px;height:1.1em;text-overflow:ellipsis;overflow:hidden;white-space:nowrap;">Reason for visiting today</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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