Wrap text in <td> tag

Question

To Wrap TD text

First set table style

table{
    table-layout: fixed;
}

then set TD Style

td{
    word-wrap:break-word
}

HTML tables support a "table-layout:fixed" css style that prevents the user agent from adapting column widths to their content. You might want to use it.

I believe you've encountered the catch 22 of tables. Tables are great for wrapping up content in a tabular structure and they do a wonderful job of "stretching" to meet the needs of the content they contain.

By default the table cells will stretch to fit content... thus your text just makes it wider.

There's a few solutions.

1.) You can try setting a max-width on the TD.

<td style="max-width:150px;">

2.) You can try putting your text in a wrapping element (e.g. a span) and set constraints on it.

<td><span style="max-width:150px;">Hello World...</span></td>

Be aware though that older versions of IE don't support min/max-width.

Since IE doesn't support max-width natively you'll need to add a hack if you want to force it to. There's several ways to add a hack, this is just one.

On page load, for IE6 only, get the rendered width of the table (in pixels) then get 15% of that and apply that as the width to the first TD in that column (or TH if you have headers) again, in pixels.

use word-break it can be used without styling table to table-layout: fixed

table {
  width: 140px;
  border: 1px solid #bbb
}

.tdbreak {
  word-break: break-all
}

<p>without word-break</p>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGG</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<p>with word-break</p>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td class="tdbreak">LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGG</td>
  </tr>
</table>

table-layout:fixed will resolve the expanding cell problem, but will create a new one. IE by default will hide the overflow but Mozilla will render it outside the box.

Another solution would be to use: overflow:hidden;width:?px

<table style="table-layout:fixed; width:100px">
 <tr>
   <td style="overflow:hidden; width:50px;">fearofthedarkihaveaconstantfearofadark</td>
   <td>
     test
   </td>
 </tr>
</table>

.tbl {
    table-layout:fixed;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    background: #fff;
 }

.tbl td {
    text-overflow:ellipsis;
    overflow:hidden;
    white-space:nowrap;
}

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