Why Td Width Is Not Working Or Not Followed?

Question

Original question: Does HTML have a default width? Recently someone asked a question somewhere along these lines, and got me wondering. Take this for example. http:/

Solution 1:

Have you tried adding display:inline-block to your TD CSS? That forces the browser to not ignore your TD width.

Solution 2:

I highly believe the answer to this question is such:

The priority of widths that will affect the TD is

Table Width
Parent Element Width (and if none, Viewport)
Element(TD) Width.

Hence if the table width is set, the TD's will ALWAYS adjust to the width of the table. However, if the width is unset, the "main" width will be the true width of the viewport. Unless the CSS code states otherwise, this holds true. And only when the total width of the TD's is smaller than that of the viewport, the elemental width will be taken into account.

Edit

Table width will always override TD width.
Stated TD width will only be followed until it exceeds viewport width, and viewport width will be taken as priority.

Solution 3:

Actually the table width depends on the cell width when you do not specify the table width. But when you specify the table width it will ignore the td width. Look at the following example:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Column 1</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Column 2</td>
  </tr>
</table>

If you use

td { 
  width:500px;
}

then the table width will be 1000px.

But if you use

table {
  width:500px;
} 
td { 
  width:500px;
}

it will ignore the <td> width and the table width will be 500px.

Solution 4:

According to the w3 Docs Here It says "In the absence of any width specification, table width is determined by the user agent."

What I can think of it is td width is always dependent on the table width. If you specify it or not. If you have a table with width 500px and 2 TDs with width 200px each. Now after adding these 2 TDs in table there are 100px remaining to accommodate so 50px each are added to both the TDs overwriting the original width property. See this link http://jsfiddle.net/rqmNY/7/

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