Tables, tables, tables! Together with images, HTML tables are the black sheep of web design.
Regardless of being the black sheep, the power of tables is amazing. And if there's an HTML element that does its job well, very well, it's tables.
Let's dig in.
The
table-layout
CSS property allows us to define the how HTML tables are laid out on the document, and it looks like this:
table-layout: fixed;
There are two keyword values: auto
and fixed
.
auto
: This is the default value. Tables are automatically laid out by the browser this way without declaring anything in the CSS. The table cells adapt to the content inside of them; the behavior of table can sometimes be unpredictable.fixed
: By declaring the width of the table cells from the first row, the rendering of the entire table can be actually faster; anything we do to improve performance is big win for everyone.
Since the table cells have a fixed width, depending on the data in the cells, some information can overflow...