Name
WIDTH — NN n/a IE 3 HTML 4
Synopsis
WIDTH=”multiLength"Optional
Defines the maximum width for the column(s) covered by the
COLGROUP 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 COLGROUP element is deployed.
Example
<COLGROUP 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%").
An alternate variation of the proportional length value is described
in the HTML 4.0 specification. For a COLGROUP
element, you can specify WIDTH="*0" to instruct
the browser to render all columns according to the minimum width
necessary to display the content of the cells in the column. For a
browser to make this calculation, it must load all table contents,
thus eliminating the possibility of incremental rendering of a long
table. For more information about proportional lengths, see the
WIDTH attribute of the COL
element.
Default
Determined by browser calculation.
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