After some testing i’ve found that Chrome doesn’t calculate the THEAD column width depending on the TBODY elements, as Opera does. Is there a way to avoid specifying this in the thead? Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
table{
width:800px;
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
table-layout: fixed;
border-spacing:0px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
table td.option{
width:100px;
}
table td {
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
border:1px solid #EEEEEE;
}
table td.active{
text-align:center;
width:100px;
}
td.thead{
/* something that makes that width: is depending on the total width of the tbody elements */
}
table td.nonfixed{
width:100%;
}
</style>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="thead">Name</td>
<td class="thead">Description</td>
<td class="thead">Active</td>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">Options</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td colspan="100"><a href="">+ Add new row</a></td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="nonfixed">[Name 1]</td>
<td class="nonfixed">[Description 1]</td>
<td class="active">[X]</td>
<td class="option">Edit</td>
<td class="option">Delete</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="nonfixed">[Name 2]</td>
<td class="nonfixed">[Description 2]</td>
<td class="active">[0]</td>
<td class="option">Edit</td>
<td class="option">Delete</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The problem is solved with adding an
<colgroup>element. Chrome uses the first row (tr or colgroup) to determine the td width. This solution encounters some problems in older versions of IE, that doesn’t support td width with percentages.