[Wylug-help] HTML/CSS table width

[Gary Stainburn]

On Wednesday 07 May 2008 15:36, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On 7 May 2008, at 15:05, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Dave, This was the solution I'd arrived at myself, butI wanted to
> > avoid
> > including extra HTML, such as the COL tags every time I used the
> > table class.
>
> If you are looking at a 2 column table (rare probably), or a multi-
> column where all but the first column are the same width, there is a
> CSS selector to pick out the first occurrence of a child element - so
> use something like
>     table { width: 100%;}
>     tr:first-child { width: 40%; }
>
> I think there are some additional tricks of this type, but my CSS cribs
> are at home...
>
> 	Nigel.

Thanks for this Nigel.  This is the sort of solution I was looking for, but 
because of the layout of the table, i.e. fixed size header cell followed by a 
data cell, Chris' solution worked.

Dave, The reasons I didn't want to do it in HTML are:

1) the objective is presentation specific and therefore should be in CSS
2) by eliminating repeated HTML I've reduce the chances of error as well as 
the size of the HTML.

Once again, thanks all.
-- 
Gary Stainburn
 
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