The IE8 documentation says it supports min-width, but it doesn’t seem to work for

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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T19:58:09+00:00 2026-05-26T19:58:09+00:00

The IE8 documentation says it supports min-width, but it doesn’t seem to work for

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The IE8 documentation says it supports min-width, but it doesn’t seem to work for me.

The html I want to be a minimum width is in table cells.

I saw another question here which suggested adding a 1-pixel height div to each cell, with a width setting, but that doesn’t work – IE renders it as 18 pixels high, for some reason.

Here is the html code:

<html>
<head>
<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style type="text/css">
table.keyboard div.key {
    height: 50px;
    font-size:50px;
    border: 5px outset gray;
    min-width: 60px;
    text-align: center;
}
table.keyboard div.spc {
    height: 1px;
    width: 60px;
    background-color: green;
}

table.keyboard td:hover {
    background-color: lightblue;
}
table.keyboard {
    border: 3px inset blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="body">
<div>Here is some stuff</div>
<table class='keyboard'>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td><div class='key'>1</div><div class='spc'></div></td>
            <td><div class='key'>2</div><div class='spc'></div></td>
            <td><div class='key'>3</div><div class='spc'></div></td>
            <td><div class='key'>4</div><div class='spc'></div></td>
            <td><div class='key'>5</div><div class='spc'></div></td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

The “spc” div appears 18 px high!

Of course, if min-width worked, I wouldn’t need the div…

<table class='keyboard'>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td><div class='key'>1</div></td>
            <td><div class='key'>2</div></td>
            <td><div class='key'>3</div></td>
            <td><div class='key'>4</div></td>
            <td><div class='key'>5</div></td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Any clues?

Just to make this easier, I have put 3 different versions of this code on my website.