table background: black;
<!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> <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' /> <title>Auto width on tables</title> <style type='text/css'> table { width: auto; background: black; color: white; } </style> </head> <body> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>How will this table react to auto width?</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html>