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31/03/2008, 14h43

I am making an HTML table. It has a lot of columns with fixed width
(55 pixels). If I view it on full-screen IE window, the table fits on
the screen and looks just as I want it to look. When I make the window
smaller than the table, I expect horizontal scroll bar to appear.
Instead each column shrinks; a cell which had:

word1 word2
word3

becomes:

word1
word2
word3

thus distorting the table and making it look ugly. Only when I make
the window so small that columns can not shrink any more (each is the
longest word wide), does horizontal scroll bar appear.

How can I avoid this -- keep the columns same width regardless of
window size? I already tried giving the table a fixed width -- it does
not solve the problem, if anything makes it worse.

31/03/2008, 14h43	#1
ilya2@rcn.com Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	How do I keep apparent table width independent of window size? I am making an HTML table. It has a lot of columns with fixed width (55 pixels). If I view it on full-screen IE window, the table fits on the screen and looks just as I want it to look. When I make the window smaller than the table, I expect horizontal scroll bar to appear. Instead each column shrinks; a cell which had: word1 word2 word3 becomes: word1 word2 word3 thus distorting the table and making it look ugly. Only when I make the window so small that columns can not shrink any more (each is the longest word wide), does horizontal scroll bar appear. How can I avoid this -- keep the columns same width regardless of window size? I already tried giving the table a fixed width -- it does not solve the problem, if anything makes it worse.