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Asked: 2026-06-06T22:14:39+00:00

I have a table with white-space set to nowrap and columns widths restricted using

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I have a table with white-space set to nowrap and columns widths restricted using table-layout fixed. This correctly hides long lines in Firefox, but in IE9 the lines are wrapping.

Test case:

<table border="1" width=200 style="white-space: nowrap; table-layout: fixed;">
    <tr>
        <td style="overflow: hidden;" width=150>Word with some spaces that isnt working in IE</td>
        <td width=50>100/50</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="overflow: hidden;" width=150>LoooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooongword</td>
        <td width=50>550/50</td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
        <td style="overflow: hidden;" width=150>AnotherLoooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnGWord</td>
        <td width=50>660/50</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Firefox:
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IE 9:
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  1. Editorial Team

    Using the strict doctype it works in my IE9, I have the same result as in the firefox. I’ve tested with the code

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>
    <form>
    <table border="1" width=200 style="white-space: nowrap; table-layout: fixed;">
        <tr>
            <td style="overflow: hidden;" width=150>Word with some spaces that isnt working in IE</td>
            <td width=50>100/50</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td style="overflow: hidden;" width=150>LoooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooongword</td>
            <td width=50>550/50</td>
        </tr>
            <tr>
            <td style="overflow: hidden;" width=150>AnotherLoooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnGWord</td>
            <td width=50>660/50</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    </form>
    </body>
    </html>
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