On 2008-03-02, shapper <mdmoura@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 29, 10:29 pm, Ben C <spams...@spam.eggs> wrote:
>> On 2008-02-29, shapper <mdmo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>>
>> > I have a table with 3 columns and I am using the usual header, footer
>> > and body sections.
>>
>> > The first column has only an input (check box).
>>
>> > Is it possible to make column 1 and 3 fixed width and column 2 get the
>> > remaining width?
>>
>> Yes. Just set the total width you want on the whole table (which might
>> be a percentage), and then set the fixed widths you want on cells in
>> columns 1 and 3.
>
> Ben,
>
> You mean in tbody cells? td?
> I am asking because I added col tags to the table and defined the
> widths in it but it does not work.
>
> I was reading about cols and it seemed the logical solution.

To set the width of a column you just set width on any (non-colspanning)
<td> in that column.

Setting different widths on <td>s in the same column is illogical since
all the cells in a column will always have the same width. If you do
that most browsers will assume the maximum of the widths you set in a
column is the one you want.

Don't bother with col or colgroup elements. I don't think they work in
Firefox. They're a bit of a throwback to the days before CSS as a crude
way to apply presentation to multiple elements at once (CSS selectors do
that job nowadays).