Table cell widths – fixing width, wrapping/truncating long words

Question

As long as you fix the width of the table itself and set the table-layout property, this is pretty simple :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <style type="text/css">
        td { width: 30px; overflow: hidden; }
        table { width : 90px; table-layout: fixed; }
    </style>
</head>
<body>

    <table border="2">
        <tr>
            <td>word</td>
            <td>two words</td>
            <td>onereallylongword</td>

        </tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>

I’ve tested this in IE6 and 7 and it seems to work fine.

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