Tables and widths and line breaks

[DeX]

I'm doing a pretty complex site for a client and it involves a lot of tables. I have some questions regarding the way they want to go with them and the way I should go according to standards.

 

1. Sometimes they'll have something in a column that flows over onto the next line at the wrong place. For example, they'll have something like:

Oversize (width x length x height)

and because of the table column spacing, it'll come out on the website as

Oversize (widthx length x height)

We need that to look more like

Oversize(width x length x height)

so what they want to do is put a <br> tag in there to force the line break where they want it, before the brackets. Is it correct to use a <br> tag or should we be using <p> tags as better programming? Is there another way to do it? Can we force the column to expand to the end of the line in the CSS instead? I need to set this globally on the site to not wrap text for certain strings.

 

2. Is there a way to set a minimum column width in the CSS? I have widths set to AUTO right now but I'd like the columns to be at least 95 pixels wide or expand as needed.

[Hybride]

Not sure about a, but b you can do

min-width: 95px

[Colton.Wagner]

I would try to use the nowrap function:

 

nowrap="nowrap"

 

Simply place that within the <td> tab.

 

You could also try the css version:

 

Overflow: visible;

 

I hope I could be some assistance.

Thanks,

Colton Wagner

[DavidAM]

1) You could use non-breaking spaces:

Oversize (width x length x height)

OR

 

2) you could use the whitespace property in a span tag:

Oversize <SPAN style="white-space: nowrap;">(width x length x height)</SPAN>

[DeX]

That's great, thanks guys. I also found out I can use some <nobr></nobr> tags though this isn't W3C compliant.

[haku]

If you are going to lay out your page in tables, then you may as well not bother working about standards. It's kind of like putting racing tires on a ford fiesta.

[DeX]

If you are going to lay out your page in tables, then you may as well not bother working about standards. It's kind of like putting racing tires on a ford fiesta.

 

You'd be surprised how many high end corporate websites have their websites done in tables.

[haku]

You'd be surprised how many high end corporate websites are crap on the backend.

[fortnox007]

If you are going to lay out your page in tables, then you may as well not bother working about standards. It's kind of like putting racing tires on a ford fiesta.

yep that looks crappy rather have a lambourgini

[haku]

Gotta admit, that's a pretty slick looking Fiesta