I have a table with 100% width. If I put <td>
s in it, they get spread out with equal length columns. However, I want all the columns except last to have as small a width as possible, without wrapping text.
What I did first was that I set width="1px"
in all <td>
s except last (although deprecated, but the style="width:1px"
didn't have any effect), which worked fine until I had multi-word data in the column. In that case, to keep the length as small as possible, it wrapped my text.
Let me demonstrate. Imagine this table:
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element1 | data | junk here | last column
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elem | more data | other stuff | again, last column
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more | of | these | rows
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No matter what I try, what I keep getting is either this:
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element1 | data | junk here | last column
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elem | more data | other stuff | again, last column
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more | of | these | rows
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or (even though I set style="whitespace-wrap:nowrap"
) this:
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| | junk | last
element1 | data | |
| | here | column
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| more | other | again,
elem | | | last
| data | stuff | column
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more | of | these | rows
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I want to get the table I presented first. How do I achieve this? (I'd rather stick to standard and using CSS. I honestly don't care if IE hasn't implemented part of the standard either)
More explanation: What I need is to keep the columns as short as possible without wrapping words (last column should be as large as it needs to make the table width actually reach 100%). If you know LaTeX, what I want is how tables naturally appear in LaTeX when you set their width to 100%.
Note: I found this but it still gives me the same as last table.