table-layout: fixed and width setting
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
<head>
<title>table-layout</title>
<style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
table {
border: 1px solid rgb(200, 200, 200);
caption-side: bottom;
width: 200px;
table-layout: fixed;
}
th {
background: lightyellow;
}
th, td {
border: 1px solid rgb(200, 200, 200);
padding: 5px;
}
col#album {
width: 200px;
background: rgb(244, 244, 244);
color: crimson;
}
col#released {
width: 1%;
background: rgb(244, 244, 244);
}
div#control {
width: 200px;
background: crimson;
color: white;
text-align: center;
font-family: monospace;
margin-bottom: 5px;
padding: 3px 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id='control'>
< -- 200 pixels -- >
</div>
<table>
<caption>
My favorite records.
</caption>
<colgroup>
<col/>
<col/>
<col/>
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>album</th><th> artist</th><th> released</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> R</td><td> A</td><td> 1965</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> B</td><td> V</td><td> 1967</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> M</td><td> T</td><td> 1995</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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