Problem with TABLE WIDTH

[Ian]

I currently have a web site that is reading from a MySQL database and
displays the results of a database search as an HTML TABLE. Everything
works fine but there is an irritation I am trying to work round. Some
of the time all the displayed information in the table will fit into a
screensize of 1024 (or whatever the users browser/screensize is set to)
but on other occasions it doesn't and various fields are then
automatically wrapped round within their cells. One very simple way
round this is to set the table width to be greater than the screensize
but what I would really like to have is that the TABLE is automatically
set to whatever size it needs, irrespective of whether it exceeds the
width of the user's browser screen. Is there any easy way of doing this
?

[Juha Häikiö]

Ian wrote:

I currently have a web site that is reading from a MySQL database and
displays the results of a database search as an HTML TABLE. Everything
works fine but there is an irritation I am trying to work round. Some
of the time all the displayed information in the table will fit
Tabular information - in general - may be difficult to get
to fit in one screenful. How many columns?

into a screensize of 1024
The regulars in this NG "love" pixels...

(or whatever the users browser/screensize is set to)
but on other occasions it doesn't and various fields are then
automatically wrapped round within their cells.
Without seeing your table, two choices: the text clips,
or the text wraps.

One very simple way
round this is to set the table width to be greater than the screensize
What? 105% or 1600px x 1.0000000001 ?

but what I would really like to have is that the TABLE is automatically
set to whatever size it needs, irrespective of whether it exceeds the
width of the user's browser screen. Is there any easy way of doing this
?

Well, that just what html tables do: browsers size
it just that way (whatever size needed). Percentages
may be useful.
--
Juha Häikiö

[www.1-script.com]

Ian wrote:

I currently have a web site that is reading from a MySQL database and
displays the results of a database search as an HTML TABLE. Everything
works fine but there is an irritation I am trying to work round. Some
of the time all the displayed information in the table will fit into a
screensize of 1024 (or whatever the users browser/screensize is set to)
but on other occasions it doesn't and various fields are then
automatically wrapped round within their cells. One very simple way
round this is to set the table width to be greater than the screensize
but what I would really like to have is that the TABLE is automatically
set to whatever size it needs, irrespective of whether it exceeds the
width of the user's browser screen. Is there any easy way of doing
this
?

You would have to modify the script that outputs the table in such way
that it will adjust the type size (easier to do it with CSS) when the
amount of symbols combined across all the fields in one row is greater
than a certain number. Can't give you that number because don't know how
many columns and how much text (any graphics?) we are talking about.
Sincerely,
Dmitri
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[Harlan Messinger]

"Ian" <ia*@nospam.com> wrote in message
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I currently have a web site that is reading from a MySQL database and
displays the results of a database search as an HTML TABLE. Everything
works fine but there is an irritation I am trying to work round. Some
of the time all the displayed information in the table will fit into a
screensize of 1024 (or whatever the users browser/screensize is set to)
but on other occasions it doesn't and various fields are then
automatically wrapped round within their cells. One very simple way
round this is to set the table width to be greater than the screensize
but what I would really like to have is that the TABLE is automatically
set to whatever size it needs, irrespective of whether it exceeds the
width of the user's browser screen. Is there any easy way of doing this
?

In CSS:

white-space: nowrap;

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#white-space-prop