100% width table question

[AshleyQuick]

Say you have/need 4 tables cells, three of which have fixed widths. The fourth needs to be able to expand because the table is 100%. What do you put for width in that fourth cell? Right now, I have 99% and it seems to work in IE. Will this cause problems in other browsers? Do you recommend a different methodology? Thanks.

<table width="100">
<tr>
<td width="130">blah</td>
<td width="55">blah</td>
<td width="99%">blah</td>
<td width="150">blah</td>
</tr>
</table>

[chrismiceli]

you can do many things here, that code should work on most browsers, but why not use percents? Javascript could do this too.

[zoobie]

Try using percentages for all cells...totaling 100%

[Spookster]

or switch to a css layout. :D

Here is a great site for example layouts like what you are wanting to do but using CSS instead of tables:

http://glish.com/css/

[zoobie]

Well, I think you have to run javascripts to make the css cross-browser...

[Spookster]

Originally posted by zoobie
Well, I think you have to run javascripts to make the css cross-browser...

Why do you need to use javascript to make the css crossbrowser?

[zoobie]

Dunno really...I just saw it posted in here recently. It was probably pertaining to the NS4 clunker. I remember checking out css layouts and they had to have several workarounds to get certain things to display properly. For me, it's tables...and by just using <br>, you can cut waaaaaaay down on the coding...with no cross-browser problems. I remember NS4 could only handle like 3 nested tables...I just came from a site which had like 25...:eek:

[barnettgs]

There has been a big fuss about using CSS over tables?! :confused:

I can't see the point of taking up so much time of working on css for layout when it only takes few minutes laying out a table!

[Spook]

Well for one thing with CSS you can position your content first so the search engine spiders don't have to trawl through all of the other "structural coding"!

Spook