Question

I have a HTML <table> with multiple cols. How do I ensure that the given cell/col width is respected in any case? That is to say that if I give a cell a width of 100px and if the text content is long (exceeds 100 chars without any spaces), the text content should respect the 100px width and wrap to next line..

I have already tried using word-wrap:break-word, but that does not work.

Answer 1

Use table-layout: fixed to ensure your td widths are respected.

Check out the MDN docs for additional information.

Edit

Something like this should work for you:

table {
    table-layout: fixed;
}
td {
    color:white;
    width:50px;
    background-color:Blue;
    word-wrap: break-word;
    max-width:50px;
}

Here’s a working fiddle to demonstrate.