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Asked: 2026-05-15T06:31:04+00:00

I have the following html page: <?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML

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I have the following html page: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
    <title>A title</title>
</head>
<body>
    <table style="width: 700px; border: solid 1px green">
        <tr>
            <td style="border: solid 1px red;" colspan="2">A cell with a bunch of text.  The amount of text here increases the 'x' cell.<td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td style="width: 100px; border: solid 1px purple;" >x</td>
            <td style="border: solid 1px blue;">Some sample text</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>

In all browsers other than Internet Explorer (8), the cell with contents “x” has a width of 100px, and it’s adjacent cell fills the rest of the table. In internet explorer 8, it’s quite a bit bigger, and it’s size varies depending on how much text is in the cell with colspan=”2″ set. Is there a fix for this bug in IE?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here is my result for failed td width in IE8:

    <table style="width: 100%;" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td style="width:auto;">td1</td>
    <td style="width:15px;">td2</td>
    <td style="width:20px;">td3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3" style="width:auto;">ds fasdf asdf asdf asdf asfd asf asdf asdf adf sadf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asfasdf dasf sdaf asd</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<!-- IE8 HACK  100% WIDTH -->
<table style="width: 100%;" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td style="width:100%;">td1</td>
    <td style="width:15px;">td2</td>
    <td style="width:20px;">td3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3" style="width:auto;">ds fasdf asdf asdf asdf asfd asf asdf asdf adf sadf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asfasdf dasf sdaf asd</td>
  </tr>
</table>
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