Fixed table width table-layout: fixed_HTML/Xhtml_webpage production

In order to allow the table to fill the screen (the remaining blank area), its width attribute is often defined as: 100%, and the cells are also defined as percentages.

But this will cause problems: If the text in the cell exceeds the width limit, it will automatically wrap and the height will automatically increase, resulting in uneven styles of the entire table and making it ugly.

The easy solution is to disable text wrapping: white-space:nowrap; overflow:hidden;

So easy! But the effect is still unexpected: the text is all displayed on one line, The width is automatically widened, even beyond the parent container, and the overflow has no effect at all!

What’s going on? Is it because of the percentage? But if you use a static fixed width, you lose the flexibility of the table.

Ever since, I found the ultimate solution effortlessly: Fixed table width: table-layout: fixed;

By the way, I made a simple rendering, for reference: