Name
WIDTH — NN n/a IE 4 HTML 4
Synopsis
WIDTH=”multiLength"
Optional
Defines the maximum width for the column(s) covered by the
COL
element. In practice (in IE 4 Windows,
anyway), the browser won’t render a column narrower than the
widest contiguous stretch of characters not containing whitespace
(e.g., the longest word). The precise measure of such a column width,
of course, depends on the font characteristics of the content, as
well. Internet Explorer 4 for the Mac mixes up column width
assignments when the COL
element is deployed.
Example
<COL WIDTH=100>
Value
Internet Explorer 4 accepts length values for the
WIDTH
in the form of pixel measures (without the
“px” unit) or percentage of available horizontal space
allocated to the entire table (WIDTH="25%"
).
The HTML 4.0 specification introduces an additional length
measurement scheme to supplement the regular length measure. Called a
proportional length (also MultiLength
), this
format features a special notation and geometry. It is best suited
for situations in which a COL
element is to be
sized based on the available width of the table space after all fixed
length and percentage lengths are calculated. Using the proportional
length notation (a number followed by an asterisk), you can direct
the browser to divide any remaining space according to proportion.
For example, if there is enough horizontal space on the page for 100
pixels after all other column width calculations are performed, three
COL
elements might specify
WIDTH
attributes ...
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