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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:50:01+00:00

I am dynamically generating HTML and feeding it into a UIWebView. I have a

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I am dynamically generating HTML and feeding it into a UIWebView. I have a few tables of data displaying and I can’t get them to stretch the full width of the screen.

So far I have tried…

  • 100% width attribute on table
  • 100% width style on table
  • widths on all cells adding up to 100%
  • style in head applying 100% width to all tables (and * sub elements)

I have also tried XHTML 4.01 and HTML 5 doctypes in case that might be causing display issues. Here is what it current looks like…

[unfortunately I am a noob and can’t post pictures yet]

I simply want them to fill all the space inside the 1px keyline surrounding the tables. Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I just figured it out.
    Because I was building the HTML dynamically (appending to an NSMutableString), my percent sign was being treated as a format specifier and was disregarded.

    I had to escape with a second percent sign and everything is working. 

    <table style=\"width:100%%;\">...

    Thanks for the help.

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