Question

I have the following layout.

<style>
   table { width: 200px; white-space: nowrap; table-layout: fixed; }
   .a { width:10px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis }
   .b { width:190px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis }
</style>

<table border="1" style="">
    <tr>         
        <td colspan="2">Some content header goes in here</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="a">This cells has more content</td>
        <td class="b">Less content here</td>
    </tr>
</table>

I’m trying to set a fixed table layout and have a fixed width on each column, however, since I have colspan above the fixed columns, then I’m not able to set the width. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

You could add a couple of col tags after the opening <table> tag and set the width on those:

<style>
   table { width: 200px; white-space: nowrap; table-layout: fixed; }
   .a { overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis }
   .b { overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis }
   .cola { width: 10px; }
   .colb { width: 190px; }
</style>

<table border="1" style="">
    <col class="cola" />
    <col class="colb" />
    <tr>         
        <td colspan="2">Some content header goes in here</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="a">This cells has more content</td>
        <td class="b">Less content here</td>
    </tr>
</table>