Clipping table cells

[RobG]

I'm trying to get table cells to clip content rather than wrapping.
It has been suggested to use:

td.clipped {
width: 5em;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
}
However, that doesn't work in either Firefox or IE. If I set
display:block, it sort of works in Firefox but IE (which is the target
for this intranet app) doesn't play the game at all.

table-layout:fixed doesn't seem to help either - or do I need to set
the widht of each column to make it work?

How can I force IE to clip table cells?
--
Rob

[RobG]

On Jun 26, 2:50 pm, RobG <[e-mail] .auwrote:

I'm trying to get table cells to clip content rather than wrapping.
It has been suggested to use:

td.clipped {
width: 5em;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
}

However, that doesn't work in either Firefox or IE. If I set
display:block, it sort of works in Firefox but IE (which is the target
for this intranet app) doesn't play the game at all.

table-layout:fixed doesn't seem to help either - or do I need to set
the widht of each column to make it work?

How can I force IE to clip table cells?

I think I've go it: set table-layout:fixed, set a width for the table
and in IE, replace all spaces with &nbsp;

How'd I go? Amazing how you can beat your head against a wall for
quite some time, then within a few minutes of posting - the answer
appears.

--
Rob