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I have a table that extends off the edge of the screen, but the body only gets as wide as the screen, causing the table to overflow it.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/6REkj/
<html>
<head>
<style>
table { background-color: lime; }
body { border: 2px solid blue; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td><td>test</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This is one of those things that make me think CSS is broken. I thought containing elements were supposed to expand to fit their contents.
Question 1: Why is it doing that?
Question 2: What should I do to get a margin between the table and the right edge of the page?
441
There are three ways to solve this problem which are listed below: By default case. Using inline-block property. Using fit-content property in width and height.
Height % is based on it's parent (so you have to set every element above the target element to 100%) , there are a few workarounds to this though. For instance you can set it to height: 100vh; This will create the element to be 100% of your window height. Or you can use px instead.
If you've faced the situation when you need to wrap words in a <div>, you can use the white-space property with the "pre-wrap" value to preserve whitespace by the browser and wrap the text when necessary and on line breaks. Also, you'll need the word-wrap property.
It's very strange that the simplest solution hasn't been mentioned:
body {
width: fit-content;
min-width: 100%; /* because the content might only be a few words */
box-sizing: border-box; /* because 100% + padding > 100% */
}
Unfortunately that doesn't work everywhere and it still requires prefixing. In Chrome (with Blink these days) that would be: -webkit-fit-content (-webkit- in Blink, weird).
195
CSS isn't broken, the behaviour you are seeing is by design.
Some quotes from the link above:
The following constraints must hold among the used values of the other properties:
'margin-left' + 'border-left-width' + 'padding-left' + 'width' + 'padding-right' + 'border-right-width' + 'margin-right' = width of containing block
..
If 'width' is set to 'auto', any other 'auto' values become '0' and 'width' follows from the resulting equality.
From this I understand that block level elements have a default width of 100% of their containing block if all of the other properties are not set.
<body> is by default a block level element.
You could set float: left; or display: inline-block on body and it will grow with its content.
Here's a jsFiddle.
To answer question 2 (to get the result of the accepted answer without resorting to setting display: table on an element which isn't a table), you could do it this way:
CSS:
html {
padding: 10px;
}
html, body {
margin: 0px;
}
body {
border: 2px solid blue;
display: inline-block;
min-width: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
table, p {
background-color: cyan;
}
Here's a jsFiddle.
41
if you set display:table; to body or html, it will allow to grow its width over the 100% of viewport. it will just expand like a table does :)
html {display:table;width:100%; /* need to set a width to 100%, wich means here a min-width since it is displayed with the same specifities thas has a table , it shrinks and expand according to its content */}
http://jsfiddle.net/6REkj/1/
other options :
display:inline-block;min-width:100%; on body : http://jsfiddle.net/6REkj/3/
position:absolute;min-width:100%; on html : http://jsfiddle.net/6REkj/4/
Edit nowdays,
min-width:max-contentwould do . http://jsfiddle.net/bj4wk6m2/
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