October 20, 2016
How can I let a table cell take in the full width of the table with css?
Jim Peeters’s Question:
For some reason the cells in my second row in my table are changing the width of the cells in the row above. I have no idea why this is the cause. I don’t want the width of the first cell in the first row to be changed. I have reproduced the problem in jsfiddle to make it clear what I mean.
FiddleJS link:
https://jsfiddle.net/bpyrgsvc/1/
HTML:
<div class="table">
<div class="row">
<div class="cell">test</div>
<div class="cell">test</div>
<div class="cell">test</div>
<div class="cell">test</div>
<div class="cell">test</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="cell">this changes the width of the cell above</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.table {
display:table;
}
.row {
display: table-row;
}
.cell {
display: table-cell;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
I don’t see anything wrong with the results. In a div set to be displayed as table
and table-row
, it is behaving as tables.
To get the result you want, close the first table and start another.
<div class="table">
<div class="row">
<div class="cell">test</div>
<div class="cell">test</div>
<div class="cell">test</div>
<div class="cell">test</div>
<div class="cell">test</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="table">
<div class="row">
<div class="cell cell-full">this changes the width of the cell above</div>
</div>
</div>