what's better?

[Guest]

hi all,

is it better to set an html table's width property to percent or pixels?

thanks,
rodchar

 

[Karl Seguin]

There's no better or not, it really depends on your requirements. The nice
thing about relative sizes (%) is that it'll adjust to the user's settings.
The downside is that it might look differently than what you were planning.

if you specify 600px, there might be 1000px of whitespace on the right...If
you specify 70%, it might squish the text into a smaller area than you were
planning.

It really depends on your design.

Karl

 

[Guest]

thank you.

There's no better or not, it really depends on your requirements. The nice
thing about relative sizes (%) is that it'll adjust to the user's settings.
The downside is that it might look differently than what you were planning.

if you specify 600px, there might be 1000px of whitespace on the right...If
you specify 70%, it might squish the text into a smaller area than you were
planning.

It really depends on your design.

Karl

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

The standard is to use percents, which allows the page to resize to fit in
the browser window.
Fixed width is usually only used for special cases.
This is analagous to FlowLayout vs. GridLayout.
Here's more info:
http://SteveOrr.net/articles/ControlPositioning.aspx